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Julie Brill: Closing Keynote at December 2015
Member Meeti
I'm absolutely delighted to announce that Julie Brill will be
giving the closing keynote at our December 2015 membership meeting.
I'll have a bit more to say about this when we send out the meeting
roadmap in a couple of weeks, but briefly, Julie is a Commisioner at
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) who has been doing some absolutely
extraordinary work on privacy and security in the digital world. I've
had the opportunity to hear her speek on these issues several times
over the past year, and she has a very deep understanding of the
implications of "big data" and algorithmic decision-making
and classification, particularly in the consumer context. There's more
bio on the CNI web site.
Julie has very graciously agreed to join us and share some of her
thinking about privacy and analytics in the higher education context.
She's titled her talk "Transparency, Trust and Consumer
Protection in a Complex World". Here is her abstract:
In a world that is becoming increasingly complex and
data-intensive, trust is becoming ever more important. If consumers do
not trust organizations and the systems that they use to collect,
analyze, and use their personal data, consumers may reject
technologies that could offer significant social and individual
benefits. Transparency is a key element of building and
maintaining consumer trust. Providing effective transparency,
however, is a challenge for companies that are developing new
connected devices and apps and predictive analytics services.
Using a series of illustrations based on the Internet of Things and
big data analytics, Commissioner Brill will discuss strategies for
providing transparency in our interconnected, complex world, with a
particular focus on the roles that researchers and consumer protection
agencies like the Federal Trade Commission in putting these strategies
into practice.
This should be a wonderful session. I hope to see you at our fall
membership meeting.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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