Week 4 Lecture - Data Privacy

Lisa Yan, September 17th, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] The New York Times. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score. 2022.
• Required [Ed post] EU. What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law?. 2020. (CW: References child abuse).
• Required [Ed post] The New York Times. Are You in a Gang Database?. 2020.
• Optional [Ed post] Theilman. Apple v the FBI: what’s the beef, how did we get here and what’s at stake?. The Guardian. 2016.
• Optional [Ed post] Slate. The Cruel New Era of Data-Driven Deportation. 2020.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Karen Levy. Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance. Introduction.
• Required Cathy O'Neil. Weapons of Math Destruction. Chapter 5, Civilian Casualties.
• Required Shoshana Zuboff. Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization. 2015.
• Optional Cathy O'Neil. Weapons of Math Destruction. Introduction.