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Upcoming Events

01/25/21: Dissonance - Computer Vision: Who is Helped and Who is Harmed?

Timnit Gebru, Computer Scientist, former Co-Lead Ethical AI Research Team, Google Brain, Founder of Black in AI, will discuss the helps, harms, and rising disparities caused by computer vision.

01/28/21: Privacy@Michigan - Nine Digits: A Brief History of Data, Privacy, and the SSN

Data Privacy Day, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

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Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson professor of history and director of the Program in American Studies at Vanderbilt University, discusses the history and privacy implications of the SSN.

02/02/21: Privacy@Michigan - Student Data Privacy and ViziBLUE

This interactive student panel will focus on student privacy at U-M and will introduce ViziBLUE, a first of its kind in higher-ed tool that provides information about student data collection and use. This event is co-hosted by the student group Tech for Social Good.

ITS Information Assurance Event Series

Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Every October, IA marks National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with special events, featured information about IT security, and more. See National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 for information about what was done in 2020.

Dissonance

Conversations at the confluence of technology, policy, privacy, security, and law

The Dissonance Event Series explores the confluence of technology, policy, privacy, security, and law from a global and national perspective. It seeks to increase universitywide, multidisciplinary discourse, and support university initiatives, including those related to data science. In addition to hosting events throughout the academic year, Dissonance co-sponsors events across campus. Recordings of past Dissonance events are available.

Privacy@Michigan

Privacy is an inherently interdisciplinary research topic that touches many disciplines at U-M. U-M faculty, researchers, students and staff, across many fields, either face or address privacy issues in their work. Privacy@Michigan celebrates International Data Privacy Day, held every year on January 28, and aims to bring together faculty, researchers, students and staff from different colleges, schools and units across campus with the goal of sparking ongoing, multidisciplinary conversations about privacy's role in society — here at U-M and worldwide.

SUMIT—Security at University of Michigan IT

SUMIT 2020 went online for SUMIT Reimagined, a series of informational events where members of the U-M community could get help from IT experts on a variety of topics.

Every October, ITS Information Assurance hosts the Security at University of Michigan IT (SUMIT) symposium to raise awareness and educate the community about important cybersecurity and privacy issues. This free event presents a rare opportunity to hear nationally recognized experts discuss the latest cybersecurity and privacy topics and trends.