Civil Rights and Big Data

New America Foundation and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Friday, March 14, 2014
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

How will new, innovative technologies benefit all individuals and help alleviate social and economic inequalities? As the urge to collect and categorize vast quantities of data about our digital behavior becomes more widespread, big data presents new opportunities and profound challenges for individuals' civil liberties and civil rights, and especially for communities of color, women, and other historically disadvantaged groups.

In this panel, leading organizers and advocates will discuss how fairness and justice figure into considerations of personal privacy and predictive analytics. Panelists will present a set of civil and human rights principles to guide legal and ethical thinking about safeguards and best practices. They will discuss high-tech profiling, automated computer decision systems, digital due process, access and control over personal data, and problems of inaccurate or incomplete big data.

Featured Speakers:
Kevin Bankston
Director of Policy
Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation
@KevinBankston

Hazeen Ashby
Legislative Director for Research and Policy
National Urban League
@dc_haze

Chris Calabrese
Legislative Director
American Civil Liberties Union
@CRCalabrese

Rashad Robinson
Executive Director
ColorOfChange
@rashadrobinson

Corrine Yu
Managing Policy Director
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
@civilrightsorg

Moderator:
Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Senior Research Fellow
Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation

To RSVP for the event:
http://www.newamerica.net/events/2014/civil_rights_and_big_data

For questions, contact Kirsten Holtz at New America at (202) 735-2806 or holtz@newamerica.org