On October 13th 2015, CMJ Director Malkia Cyril gave a keynote address at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference.
It was a passionate appeal about the need for “a new civil rights act for the era of big data.”
Source: Targeted Surveillance, Civil Rights, and the Fight for Democracy – The Center for Media Justice
On October 30, 2014, the Data & Society Research Institute, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and New America’s Open Technology Institute hosted the first annual conference on Data & Civil Rights on October 30, 2014 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This year’s conference focused on why “big data†is a civil rights issue. The event convened a diverse group of people from the civil rights community, government, industry, philanthropy, and research.
via Data Civil Rights.
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