Avoiding Dystopia: User privacy preferences and empowerment online
Host
Arvind Satyanarayan
Abstract: Online sharing combined with opaque mass surveillance and powerful analytic tools has led us to a place where data is collected and transformed into incredibly personal insights, often without users' knowledge or consent. This impacts the information they see, the way they interact, and it can be used in deeply manipulative ways. This talk will look at users' feelings about these practices and how they tie back to classic sociological understandings of trust, power, and privacy. I discuss possible ways forward to avoid an impending dystopia, especially in light of GDPR on one side and Chinese Social Credit on the other.
Bio: Jen Golbeck is a Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence and social media, privacy, and trust on the web. Her dogs are also famous on the internet and she runs their social media empire at theGoldenRatio4 on all platforms. She received an AB in Economics and an SB and SM in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Bio: Jen Golbeck is a Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence and social media, privacy, and trust on the web. Her dogs are also famous on the internet and she runs their social media empire at theGoldenRatio4 on all platforms. She received an AB in Economics and an SB and SM in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.