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Systems Failure: How to respond when our algorithms are biased and our privacy is in peril

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Systems Failure: How to respond when our algorithms are biased and our privacy is in peril

17 Sep 2021

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Latanya Sweeney a pioneer in the fields of algorithmic fairness and data privacy and the founding director of the new Public Interest Tech Lab at Harvard University. The former chief technology officer for the US Trade Commission, she’s been awarded 3 patents and her work is cited in two key US privacy regulations, including the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She was also the first black woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, and she says her experiences being the only woman of color in white male-dominated classrooms and labs may have contributed to her uncanny ability to spot racial and gender bias, privacy vulnerabilities, and other key flaws in data and technology systems.
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Authors

Susan Hughes, Latanya Sweeney, Ralph Ranalli

Duration
31:54
Episode number
227
Published in
United States of America

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