Week 4 Lecture - Data Privacy

Lisa Yan, September 18th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required Jodi Kantor, Arya Sundaram. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score. The New York Times. 2022.
• Required Bobby Allyn. 'Too dangerous': Why even Google was afraid to release this technology. NPR. 2023.
• Optional Sam Thielman. Apple v the FBI: what’s the beef, how did we get here and what’s at stake?. The Guardian. 2016.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Terry Gross. Exposing the secretive company at the forefront of facial recognition technology. NPR. 2023.
• Required What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law? (CW: references child abuse). 2023.
• Required Karen Levy. Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance [Introduction].