Mitigating Societal Harms in a Social Media World
Speakers: policymakers and technologists who explore the intersection of current technical efforts and public policies and the resulting impacts to society
Meeting Date: 8:00 AM – Noon (PDT), Tuesday & Wednesday, September 21-22, 2021
Cost: none
Reservations: tech-forum.computer.org/mitigating-societal-harms
Summary: This 2-day event brings together civil society and tech to strengthen the alignment between the two groups and encourage the balance of freedom of expression and privacy concerns. It explores the distinction between solutions that are pure policy and those that combine policy with technology solutions, with new approaches that require collaboration between policy and tech.
Speakers: — David Callies, Facebook ThreatExchange; — Emily Cashman Kirstein, Thorn; — Hany Farid, UC-Berkeley; — Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Google Research/Stanford University; and many more.