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Panoptic Surveillance and Privacy’s Future: An Interview with Oscar Gandy

Posted on by Daniel Solove

Back in 1993, Professor Oscar Gandy, Jr. wrote one of the most insightful and prescient books about privacy: The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Oscar Gandy is an emeritus professor with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, having retired from active teaching in 2006. He has continued to publish in […]

Cartoon: Algorithmic Transparency

Posted on by Daniel Solove
Cartoon Algorithmic Transparency - TeachPrivacy Privacy Training 02

This cartoon is about algorithmic transparency. Today, more and more decisions are being made by algorithms.  The logic and functioning of these algorithms is increasingly complex and opaque to people. Today, the new buzzwords are “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.”  AI and machine learning represent a number of different but related things, but what they […]