Join us for the first event of Toward Public Interest Technology, an interview series with UVA faculty who create or study technology for public good.
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Please join us for the first event of Toward Public Interest Technology, an interview series with UVA faculty who create or study technology for public good. This series is hosted by UVA’s chapter of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). PIT-UN aims to support people to study, build, and use tech to serve society. This series promotes this important goal and helps form a multidisciplinary community at UVA around socially beneficial technology.
Danielle Citron (Law) will be in conversation with MC Forelle (Engineering) on September 27, 2:30-4pm, Shannon Library, Room 330. All are welcome!
Danielle Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at University of Virginia School of Law where she writes and teaches about information privacy, civil rights, and free speech. She is the author of more than 60 law review articles and two books, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (W.W. Norton, Penguin Vintage UK, 2022), which was named Amazon Top 100 book of 2022, and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press, 2014), which Cosmopolitan magazine named Top 20 moments for women in 2014. She is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow and the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative where she has worked with tech companies and state and federal lawmakers on online abuse and Section 230 reform. She advises the White House’s Gender Policy Council and worked for then-California Attorney General on her Cyber Exploitation Task Force. Her TED talk on deepfakes has garnered more than 3.4 million views.
Register here to receive a Zoom streaming link. A video of the interview will be shared on UVA’s PIT-UN website.