Date
The Privacy@Michigan event with Albert Fox Cahn examined the ways that novel technologies are driving inequality, eroding autonomy, and undermining rule of law. It also looked at the glimmers of hope piercing the darkness of this moment. Albert highlighted litigation, legislation, and grassroots organizing campaigns that are pushing back every day on the growth of Orwellian technologies. A new generation of dystopian storytellers are highlighting the once-invisible harms of government surveillance, and groups defending undocumented immigrants, abortion care, and the bedrock principles of rule of law are fighting and winning in local communities across the United States. Albert described all of these, and strategies that can be deployed in your local communities in the months and years ahead.
Speaker
Founder in Residence, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Albert Fox Cahn is the founder in residence of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) and a fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Ashoka, N.Y.U Law School’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and the Day One Project. As a lawyer, technologist, writer, and interfaith activist, Mr. Cahn began S.T.O.P. in the belief that emerging surveillance technologies pose an unprecedented threat to civil rights and the promise of a free society.
Mr. Cahn is a frequent commentator on civil rights, privacy, and technology matters. He is a contributor to the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guardian, WIRED, Slate, NBC Think, Newsweek, and dozens of other publications. He has lectured at Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College. Mr. Cahn previously served as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on technology policy, antitrust law, and consumer privacy. His first book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation is available from Cambridge Press.
In addition to his work at S.T.O.P., Mr. Cahn serves on the New York Immigration Coalition’s Immigrant Leaders Council, the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund’s Advisory Council, and is an editorial board member for the Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection. Mr. Cahn received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review), and his B.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Brandeis University.