Disciplines:
Computer ScienceKatrina Ligett is part of the Data Co-Ops Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative designing frameworks for data cooperatives. She is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at The Hebrew University, where she additionally serves as head of the program on Internet & Society. Prior to joining The Hebrew University, she was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics at Caltech. Ligett's research interests include differential privacy, algorithmic game theory, fairness in machine learning, and adaptive data analysis. Ligett’s work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award and a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
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Information ScienceKobbi Nissim is part of the Data Co-Ops Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative designing frameworks for data cooperatives. He is also McDevitt Chair in Computer Science, Georgetown University and affiliated with Georgetown Law. Nissim’s work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and in 2006 he introduced differential privacy with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. Nissim was awarded the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 2019, the Gödel Prize In 2017, the IACR TCC Test of Time Award in 2016 and in 2018, and the ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award in 2013.
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Information Science & Political ScienceMatt Prewitt is a lawyer and president of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is also part of the Data Co-Ops Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative designing frameworks for data cooperatives.
RadicalxChange (RxC) is a global movement for next-generation political economies. They are committed to advancing plurality, equality, community, and decentralization through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, the commons, and identity.
Founded by economist Glen Weyl in 2018, the RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing the RxC movement, to building community, and to education about democratic innovation.
By Katrina Ligett, The Hebrew University, Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University, and Matt Prewitt, RadicalxChange Foundation
Last spring, Apple launched a new privacy feature giving iPhone users greater control over how apps track their activity across other apps and websites. It streamlines into a single setting the confusing and sometimes overwhelming privacy options people often face, and the update has been extremely popular.
Yet while Apple’s new privacy feature is a step in the right direction, it is merely the latest in a long line of individualistic solutions to data privacy. Our public conversation about these issues is dominated by the flawed premise that privacy is an individual problem that can be solved by finding the right settings for users to better control their data. Although personal preferences certainly matter, this individual rights framework offers an incomplete understanding of the problem and an inadequate set of solutions.
Read the full article at The Boston Globe.
This article was produced by Footnote in partnership with The Data Co-ops Project.
Get in touch about this workBy Kalinda Ukanwa of University of Southern California
Fine-tuning the privacy settings on your digital apps won’t actually protect your personal information. The problem demands a collective response.
By Desmond Patton of the University of Pennsylvania
Fine-tuning the privacy settings on your digital apps won’t actually protect your personal information. The problem demands a collective response.
By Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California
Fine-tuning the privacy settings on your digital apps won’t actually protect your personal information. The problem demands a collective response.
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