Join us May 18th as we showcase some of the projects out of the first cohort of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy located within the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

Advances in the use of algorithms and drones are challenging privacy norms and raising important policy questions. Join us as teams from two of the inaugural Center for Technology, Society and Policy collaborative projects present their work to involve diverse stakeholders in policy discussions around these technologies.

 CityDrones
Learn about the future of the City of San Francisco's drone policy! The CityDrones project is working with the City to generate the official policy to govern drones operated by municipal agencies.

A User-Centered Perspective on Algorithmic Decision-Making
Hear from the research team, CTSP Fellows Rena Coen, Emily Paul, and Pavel Vanegas about their findings from a large-scale survey on user attitudes toward online personalization. Then join Alethea Lange and Jennifer King for a discussion about the policy implications of this research, moderated by Gautam Hans.

*Food and Appetizers provided 

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PRESENTATIONS

Project: CityDrones

Learn about the future of the City of San Francisco's drone policy! The CityDrones project is working with the City to generate the official policy to govern drones operated by municipal agencies.

Charles is the CEO and Founder of Startup Policy Lab, a tech nonprofit working at the intersection of technology and government. Charles is an appointed public member of the City & County of San Francisco’s Committee on Information Technology and a Non-Residential Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet & Society. Talk with Charles @charlesbelle 

Panel: A User-Centered Perspective on Algorithmic Decision-Making

Alethea Lange is a Policy Analyst on CDT’s Privacy and Data Project. Her work focuses on empowering users to control their digital presence, and includes developing standards for fairness and transparency in algorithms, protecting digital assets, and the intersection of civil rights and big data.

Jen King is a Ph.D. candidate in information science at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where she studies information privacy, specifically the social aspects of how people make decisions about their information privacy, and how privacy by design — or the lack of it — influences privacy choices. She is an inaugural grantee of CLTC, which is funding her dissertation research.

Gautam Hans is Policy Counsel and Director of CDT-SF at the Center for Democracy & Technology. His work encompasses a range of technology policy issues, focused on privacy, security and speech, including governmental access to data; online content policy; and technology policy issues for startups. He is a CTSP Fellow and CLTC grantee.

Presenters:

CTSP Fellows and CLTC grantees Rena Coen, Emily Paul, and Pavel Vanegas are 2016 graduates of the Master of Information Management and Systems program at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Working collaboratively with the Center for Democracy & Technology, they designed and carried out this study for their master’s thesis project.

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