Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law

The 2025 STS?(Science & Technology Studies)?Hub, "Diffracting the critical," is taking place in Berlin this week, March 11-14. Our postdoc Fritz Fellow Marianna Poyares?is one of the panelists. Her presentation "The border at the center: why a critical STS must grapple with border enforcement" argues that new technologies of border and immigration enforcement consist of some of the most extreme forms of surveillance and data extraction frequently disregarding individual and human rights protections, as they operate within the normative equivalent of a state of exception. For programming visit: sts-hub.de/25/

?? NEXT WEEK at 6:30pm ET: Virtual launch of a new report “Houston Diagnostic Report” from Edgelands Institute, No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE) Coalition & Surveillance Resistance Lab to which our Senior Assoc. Clarence Okoh contributed to - as part of the NOTICE coalition’s Ending Youth Surveillance Speaker Series. “TX schools have served as testing grounds for various surveillance technologies…extend(ing) police surveillance in already over-policed neighborhoods [&] exacerbat(ing) racial & socioeconomic inequalities” Register at this link: ?https://lnkd.in/eaRahJiC

Attn: currently enrolled Georgetown University students! Are you interested in issues of privacy, surveillance, civil rights or technology law and policy? We’re looking for self-motivated undergraduate, graduate, and law students to work as legal research assistants for the 2025-2026 academic year. Details and application: https://lnkd.in/e465Vk-N #georgetown #studentjobs #privacy

Happening this Wednesday! Still time to register and hear Veena Dubal, Mark Graham Funda Ustek Spilda and Katie Wells discuss this new report! RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gQTuntuH

Join us for a launch event for Fairwork’s U.S. Report: “When AI Eats the Manager.” Hosts Veena Dubal, Mark Graham, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Katie J Wells will discuss how algorithmic management technologies are shaping one of the largest labor sectors in the country — healthcare — and what happens when nurses use AI to bid against each other for shifts. Register at https://lnkd.in/gQTuntuH. Co-sponsored by us and these partners: Fairwork, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Groundwork Collaborative, Towards Justice, Roosevelt Institute, National Nurses United, Private Equity Stakeholder Project, National Employment Law Project, AI Now Institute, Community Catalyst, Open Markets Institute

Our Senior Associate, Clarence Okoh, will be speaking at the Black History Month event: “The Impact of AI on Students, Education, and Privacy” at Houston Community College on February 27! The event will feature a conversation on AI in education and its potential impact on students and the Black community. Register here: https://www.hccs.edu/BHM-AI #BlackHistoryMonth

We’re hosting and co-hosting incredible events this year and offering unique opportunities. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on all that we’re up to!? Link to subscribe: https://lnkd.in/eJn8dKWr? Link to our latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/ekPqPbVk

Check out this mini-course from our neighbors at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. Don’t miss the chance to learn from Emily Tucker and David McNeill – get your application in by February 14!

A bit of good news in this moment: Mark Graham (below) will be in DC on Wed Mar 5 for our launch of the Fairwork US 2025 Report: "When AI Eats the Manager." The study (we think) breaks ground with findings about elderly care platforms and the on-demand nursing industry. Event co-sponsors: Fairwork, Groundwork Collaborative, Towards Justice, Roosevelt Institute, National Nurses United, Private Equity Stakeholder Project, National Employment Law Project, AI Now Institute, DC Jobs with Justice, Community Catalyst, Open Markets Institute, and Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. Register for this in-person event: https://lnkd.in/eCsiWVye

We’re seeking currently enrolled Georgetown University Law Center students who are passionate about the intersection of privacy, technology, human rights, and immigration enforcement to join us for a 10 week paid summer fellowship. The Fellow will conduct focused research and writing on a tech policy issue that affects historically disadvantaged communities. Applications are due March 12, but will be considered on a rolling basis. Apply today at https://lnkd.in/e465Vk-N.?