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Privacy, Profiles, & Profits

May 3 2018

6:30pm to 7:30pm

How to Help Protect Yourself from Problematic Technologies

From shoppers’ club cards and your privacy settings on Facebook, to the cars we drive and phones we use — the data we are creating is being used by governments, advertisers, and business strategists to build your personal profile! But what do we do when the data being gathered crosses the ethical line — how do we help protect ourselves from harm, unintentional and purposeful? Technology guru, professor, and digital freedom fighter Sascha Meinrath talks data mining at this pop-up community event! Questions will be taken in advance.

Register online at schlowlibrary.org – space is limited. Refreshments provided.