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Reclaim Your Name: Privacy in the World of Big Data

Prospective Digital Learning Students
Annual Event,
Lecture / Panel
 
Open to the Public
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Cybersecurity Lecture Three
Sponsored by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

In NYU-Poly's third, eagerly anticipated Sloan Cyber Security Lecture, Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill explores the expanding collection and use of Big Data in the marketplace, recognizing the challenges it presents for consumers and businesses--as well as for agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, responsible for safeguarding both. Commissioner Brill embraces the enormous benefits offered by Big Data analytics, but also believes it presents fundamental challenges to traditional notions of individual privacy.

She encourages the highly decentralized community of Big Data purveyors to adopt practices that follow laws that already govern the way data can be used and calls for industry to engage in robust de-identification of consumer data. She concludes by taking us through her comprehensive initiative, "Reclaim Your Name," to give consumers knowledge and tools to reassert control over their personal data.

Panelist Include:

  • Julie Brill - Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
  • Jennifer Barrett Glasgow - Global Privacy and Public Policy Executive, Acxiom Corporation
  • Julia Angwin - The Wall Street Journal
  • Daniel Weitzner - Director, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group, MIT

A networking reception will follow the panel discussion. We hope you will join us for an engaging discourse around this critical topic.

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