by Paul-Olivier Dehaye and Jerome Groetenbriel | moderated by Profesor Michael Harris | introduced by Professor Bernard E. Harcourt
As part of The CCCCT's Digital Initiative, we invite you to join us in a two-part lectures series examing personal data use. The Thursday lecture by Paul-Olivier Dehaye, (the Swiss-based mathematician and data activist who has been investigating Cambridge Analytica for more than a year) will take place at 11am at Columbia University (East Gallery, Maison Francais) and will explore what actually happened around the company Cambridge Analytica, and its wild claims of profiling of the American electorate. What is the scientific basis for their claims? How did this technology move from the academic setting into the hands of a corporation with a very shady past? Did data also follow that path? How was additional data collected? How do different laws look at this situation? Paul-Olivier Dehaye is joined by Cathy O'Neil (author of New York Times bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction; Crown 2016) and Professor Michael Harris from Columbia University.
The second, related lecture on Friday, April 14th (at noon) with both Paul-Olivier Dehaye and Jerome Groetenbriel (co-founders PersonalData.IO) l will address, we hope: how do different cultures view personal data? What are the forces behind personal data use? What are the impacts of this use? How does this destabilize current equilibria in societies? What could be balancing forces? Are they needed? What are the responses from the European Union? Can we expect that to be effective?