Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
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Our researchers, fellows, academics and scholars study digital technologies with a focus on research, social engagement and training.
Princeton, NJ, USA
Joined January 2010
Join us Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. Alex Hanna (@alexhanna) will give a talk entitled "Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure, and Genealogies of Data". More info and Zoom link:
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After 4 years embedded in Silicon Valley @random_walker decided to use his research to make the world better. On July 1, @princeton Prof. Arvind Narayanan, AI and privacy expert and advocate for tech accountability, takes the helm @PrincetonCITP:
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We’re excited to announce the publication of four original case studies from the “Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics” project, in collaboration with the University Center for Human Values: and #AIEthics.
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Congratulations to @EdFelten for winning the annual Privacy Award given by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (at UC Berkeley). Ed will receive the award on March 23 at the Privacy Law Forum.
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We’re excited to share that privacy expert Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) has been appointed the new director of CITP 🎉
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We are excited to welcome investigative journalist @seekingsrishti to @princertoncitp and the Digital Witness Lab, with special thanks to the @pulitzercenter!
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Yesterday, Princeton Ph.D. CS student Laura Roberts gave a talk on her team’s work at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2018. Their paper, “Major key alert!” Anomalous keys in Tor relays," can be read here: #fc18
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A generous gift in the amount of $600,000 from DuckDuckGo was given to CITP to expand technology policy research. CITP will continue to work on a wide range of topics at the intersection of digital technologies and society.
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New post: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
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New post: What does it mean to ask for an “explainable” algorithm?
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⚡JOB ALERT⚡We're hiring a new professor at @PrincetonCITP. This new assistant, associate or full professor will join us in our mission of understanding and improving digital technology for the good of society. Outstanding candidates apply:
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CITP fellow @watkins_welcome and @datasociety @undersequoias @MannyMoss @m_c_elish & Ranjit Singh are presenting their published paper today "Algorithmic Impact Assessments and Accountability: The Co-construction of Impacts" at the #FAccT21 conference
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Congratulations to Laura M. Roberts who received her Ph.D. in computer science, specializing in security at Princeton's 2021 Commencement on Sunday. Laura was advised by CITP founding director @EdFelten.
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On Thursday, April 2, at 12:30pm, CITP will present a webinar panel on elections and the role of technology during a pandemic. Moderator: @EdFelten. Panelists: @danachis, @JaredDeMarinis, @EllenLWeintraub. For more info and to register:
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CITP Fellow Orestis Papakyriakopoulos (@SciOrestis) co-created a dashboard that monitors the US presidential elections on Facebook, TikTok, & online news media. It provides transparency on candidates' ads, and which user content and articles are.popular.
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Congrats to CITP Fellow @watkins_welcome. Her paper, "The Tension Between Information Justice and Security: Perceptions of Facial Recognition Targeting" won the Best Paper at the workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS).
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Congratulations to @EdFelten for being named a member to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a bipartisan agency within the executive branch!
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We are beyond thrilled and proud to see @princetoncitp's @random_walker and @sayashk on the cover of @TIME magazine's TIME 100/AI issue! A well deserved honor!🎉.
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TOMORROW (5/16)at 4:30 p.m., join @Princetoncitp and @ruha9’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab for “Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair” with @climateincolour, @Grace_Akese, @AlieEmmanuel, @FixitClinic. @Kenia_Hale will moderate:
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🎉 Congratulations to CITP postdoctoral research associate Lauren Kilgour, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Design and Technology @UWaterloo’s @uwstratford. Her work @Princeton has made us all proud. See some of it here:
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CITP associated faculty member and professor of African-American studies @ruha9 is participating in a Gilbert Lecture on April 30 at 5 pm, titled "Equity, Ethics and Technology", which will be in the form of a fireside chat with Toni Townes-Whitley ’85.
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Huge win against Facebook tracking in Belgium. CITP postdoc Günes Acar helped the Belgian Data Protection Agency with the technical analysis of Facebook's online tracking capabilities.
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Read "e-raced," a contribution by CITP grad student @MatthewDSun to Kernel, a new magazine launching from @reboot_hq, a digital community and publication. Fun fact: the piece builds on research by Thomas Schelling that Matthew first learned of while doing research at CITP!.
Today, we're pre-releasing another piece from Kernel. "E-raced" by @MatthewDSun is a touching, analytical meditation on why fostering healthier digital communities requires reckoning with how early utopian visions for the internet erased racial identity.
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Join us at 6pm on Oct. 5 for a virtual talk by @thistimeitsmimi, the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, who will screen a new short film commissioned by the lab, moderated by Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9).
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On April 11, CITP emerging scholar Kenia Hale will moderate a conversation on Imagining Radical Tech Futures with @annikaizora, @AshleyJaneLewis, & @prettydarke. They will share their approaches to designing radical tech tools for social change. More info:
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On April 11 at 4:30pm , CITP emerging scholar Kenia Hale will moderate a conversation on Imagining Radical Tech Futures with esteemed panelists @annikaizora, @AshleyJaneLewis, and @prettydarke. More info and registration link:
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Congratulations to CITP Director @EdFelten for being named the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Service Award by the Computing Research Association. For more information about Ed's distinguished career:
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Laura Roberts is virtually presenting: "Watching the Watchers: Nonce-based Inverse Surveillance to Remotely Detect Monitoring” at Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 2020 at 9:45 a.m. The official hashtag is #TMA2020.
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Congratulations to Professor Arvind Narayanan @random_walker and CS graduate student @RossTeixeira for receiving an Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)! They both will be honored at a luncheon this Thursday.
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Congratulations to CITP Postdoc @aruneshmathur, who received a 2021 AMC SIGCHI award for Outstanding Dissertation. Arunesh’s dissertation is entitled “Identifying and Measuring Manipulative User Interfaces at Scale on the Web." .
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Are you a recent college graduate interested in getting involved in tech + society research? Apply for a full-time, paid, two-year position with CITP's Emerging Scholars Program!
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Join us for a webinar on Thursday, April 16 at 3 p.m. @EdFelten will give a talk entitled "COVID-19, Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties." For more information and to register:
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Stanford researcher @PeterHndrsn uses his expertise in machine learning and law as tools for justice and equity and we're so glad he'll be joining @princetoncitp in '24:
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Please join us next week on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as @alicetiara presents "Beyond the Binary: How LGBTQ+ People Negotiate Networked Privacy." All are invited to particupate virtually; in-person attendance limited to @Princeton faculty, students and staff.
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Don't forget! If you're interested in joining CITP as a new visitor or affiliate for 2018-19, the information and application can be found here: We have a particular interest this year in people working in AI or IoT.
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Congratulations to Prof. Arvind Narayanan, who for the second semester in a row, was recognized as part of the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science’s (SEAS) Commendation for Outstanding Teaching for spring 2021.
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"POODLE and the fundamental market failure of browser security" by @josephbonneau @PrincetonCITP
http://t.co/BNniuEgI4g.
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If you missed CITP's conference last Friday "Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence: Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age," read all about it now on PU's home page. @benzevenbergen,
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Beginning now: CITP/UN Conference – Social Protection by Artificial Intelligence:.Decoding Human Rights in a Digital Age. If you can't be with us we are live-streaming: Opening remarks by @EdFelten.
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Tithi Chattopadhyay, who joined CITP as Associate Director in 2017, has been promoted to Executive Director of the Center. She oversees strategic planning, operations and staffing, research collaborations, fundraising and development, and new initiatives
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Join us this Wednesday, March 20 at 12:30 p.m. in CS 105 or by Zoom. Emily Tseng will give a talk entitled: Digital Safety and Security for Survivors of Technology-Mediated Harms.
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New post: On Encryption, Archiving, and Accountability
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CITP is happy to announce that current Interim Director and Professor of Sociology @msalganik has been re-appointed as director of CITP for a two-year term beginning 7/1/20.
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The encryption debate has flared up again. How do we move the debate forward?. Tune in May 13 11am EDT for a @CarnegieCyber @PrincetonCITP discussion w/ @Denis44 @EdFelten @thejimbaker @amac, @harlanyu, Avril Haines, Susan Landau + other leading experts.
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Our @princetoncitp Tuesday seminars kick off Sept. 12 with a presentation from Prof. Arvind Narayanan @random_walker, who will discuss Five Useful Things to Know About Tech Policy.
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Mark your calendars! Monday, Feb. 13, 4:30pm, 104 CS Building. @edfelten discusses policy & tech in the Obama WH.
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Join us today at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. @EthanZ, professor at @UMassAmherst, will give a talk entitled "The Good Web: Competing Visions for the Future of Social Media". More info and Zoom link:
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Just published by @PrincetonCITP researchers @sayash and @random_walker, How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media:
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New post: On Encryption Apps in the White House
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New post: How the Politics of Encryption Affects Government Adoption
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Join @PrincetonCITP at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 for a seminar by @GeorgiaTech Professor @asbruckman Amy Bruckman called, “Difficult Conversations Online—Two Empirical Studies and a Design Experiment.” Watch in person or online:
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Register now for our AI & Ethics conference on Saturday, March 10, 9am-5pm. This will be interactive with panels & focused break-outs. The major themes will be moral imperialism and the democratic frontiers of artificial intelligence. For more info:
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New post: How to Analyze An Encryption Access Proposal
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New post: Why the Singularity is Not a Singularity
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New post: Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
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Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, @msalganik's new book is available for pre-order.
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New post: Announcing IoT Inspector, A Tool to Study Smart Home IoT Device Behavior
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Join us Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. Anjalie Field (@anjalie_f) will give a talk entitled "Building Language Technologies for Analyzing Online Activism". More info and Zoom link:
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Today at 12:30 p.m. CITP will present a webinar panel on elections and the role of technology during a pandemic. Moderator: @EdFelten. Panelists: @danachis, @JaredDeMarinis, and @EllenLWeintraub. For more info and to register:
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Mark your calendars for PPPL's Zoom Science on Saturday lecture series featuring @random_walker. Prof. Narayanan will give a talk entitled "How to Recognize AI Snake Oil." The talk is scheduled for Sat., Jan. 16 at 9:30 am. Register here: #scionsat #stem
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Apply to CITP Call for Fellows 2021-22. We are welcoming applications from postdoctoral candidates working at the intersection of digital technology & public life. For more info:
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Join us next Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 12:30 p.m. for the first of our virtual seminar series this semester. Mihir Kshirsagar will give a talk about the launch of CITP's Tech Policy Clinic. For more information and to register:
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Congratulations to CITP affiliate @j2bryson on her win for outstanding achievement in AI Ethics CogX Award!
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Join us Feb. 15 at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. @rcalo, professor at @UWSchoolofLaw, will give a talk entitled "Modeling Through". More info and Zoom link:
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New post: Demystifying The Dark Web: Peeling Back the Layers of Tor’s Onion Services
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Congrats to @aylin_cim selected as an EECS 2017 Rising Star. She'll be attending the RS wksp at Stanford Nov 6-7.
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CITP prof @random_walker was interviewed by @EthanZ for the podcast "Reimagining the Internet" about the book he is working on with @sayashk calling out false claims at the core of AI hype
Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) is one of the smartest people in the world about AI, and he's concerned that we are letting hype cloud our understanding of what AI can and cannot do. Here's my interview of him for @iDPI_umass Reimagining the Internet:
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Apply now for CITP Call for Fellows 2021-22! We welcome applications from postdoctoral candidates working at the intersection of digital technology & public life. We will begin reviewing applications mid-December. For more info:
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Last month, CITP researchers @ang3linawang, @christelletono, @sayashk, @aawinecoff, @SciOrestis and Mihir Kshirsagar attended the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (@AIESConf) in Oxford. They presented the following papers:
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Join us today at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. Arunesh Mathur will give a talk entitled: "The Princeton Digital Ad Observatory." For more info and the Zoom link:
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Join us for a webinar today, April 16 at 3 p.m. @EdFelten will give a talk entitled "COVID-19, Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties." For more information and to register:
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Don't forget to register for our AI & Ethics conference on Saturday, March 10, 9am-5pm in the Friend Center Convocation Room. Interactive panels & focused break-outs. Major themes will be moral imperialism & the democratic frontiers of AI. For more info:
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New post: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Online Content Moderation
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Congrats to CS postdoc and CITP's own star @_Royaen_ for her acceptance into the 2016 Rising Stars Workshop at CMU!
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On the Princeton homepage is a study by @annie_edmundson, @feamster, @jrexnet and @royaensafi that offers an early look at the effectiveness of measures to reduce dependence on internet traffic through a few dominant countries.
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TOMORROW: Join us at 12:30pm ET for a seminar by CITP fellow @eszter entitled "The Black Box of Information Access: Measuring People’s Algorithm Skills"
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Join us virtually at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 16 as @Princetoncitp and @ruha9’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab present, “Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair." @Kenia_Hale will moderate:
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Don't forget to register for our webinar tomorrow, April 16 at 3 p.m. @EdFelten will give a talk entitled "COVID-19, Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties." For more information and to register:
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Princetonians: Please join us on Monday, March 9th at 12:30 p.m. in 105 Computer Science. (This talk will replace our regular Tuesday lunch seminar.) Rediet Abebe will give a talk on "Designing Algorithms for Social Good."
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Today at 4:30pm, CITP emerging scholar Kenia Hale will moderate a conversation on Imagining Radical Tech Futures w/ @annikaizora, @AshleyJaneLewis & @prettydarke. They will share their approaches to designing radical tech tools for social change. Register:
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CITP's Freedom to Tinker blog ( has been named one of the best computer science blogs:
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"Facial Recognition Technology and the Growing Power of Artificial Intelligence", a new report from @OurCommons, cites the research of CITP grad student @ang3linawang, Emerging Scholar @christelletono, and CITP postdoc @watkins_welcome.
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New post: Smart Contracts: Neither Smart not Contracts?
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Join us Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 12:30 p.m. for our virtual seminar series. Lucy Qin (@lcyqn) will give a talk entitled "A Decentralized and Encrypted National Gun Registry". More info and Zoom link:
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Voting Machines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) features @EdFelten at the 10:55 mark. .
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Joel was also an active member of the CITP community at Princeton University and he will be profoundly missed.
Fordham Law mourns the loss of Professor Joel Reidenberg, a pioneer in the legal academy on internet privacy and cybersecurity. Dean @mattdiller remembers Reidenberg as a "great cheerleader—taking pleasure in helping others to develop and thrive.".
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New post: BMDs are not meaningfully auditable
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CITP grad student @ang3linawang and postdoctoral fellow @watkins_welcome will be discussing facial recognition before the Information, Privacy and Ethics committee of the Canadian parliament today from 11am to 1pm ET. View here:.
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CITP fellow @watkins_welcome co-authored: "Assembling Accountability: Algorithmic Impact Assessment for the Public Interest." This report was a collaboration of the AI on the Ground team at the Data & Society Research Institute,
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The @PrincetonCITP Newsletter is out!! 🔥🗞️See what @msalganik @aawinecoff @ang3linawang @random_walker @jonathanmayer and others are up to:
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Please join us at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, for a lunchtime talk with Frederik Zuiderveen @fborgesius. He will present: Digital Discrimination and the Law in Europe. See you there:
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Please join @PrincetonCITP for a special (hybrid) event with @PrincetonSPIA and @NewAmerica. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 4:30 p.m. Details and REGISTRATION:
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One last reminder: CITP's AI & Ethics conf. is tomorrow, March 10, 9am-5pm in the Friend Center Convocation Room. While this event won't be live-streamed, the panels will be videotaped and available on our YouTube channel in a week or so. For more info:
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CITP associated faculty @jonathanmayer interviewed for the Time article "Experts Aren't Impressed With Google's New Privacy Tools,"
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Work by @shaananc @RossTeixeira @akohlbre @randomwalker @MrsMRS_PhD @ynotez & Mihir Kshirsagar is featured in the NY Times with a direct link to the paper. The work addresses the socio-technological impacts of moving to online learning.
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