IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2024

Casey Fiesler is an associate professor of information science (and computer science by courtesy) at University of Colorado Boulder. She researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities. Her work on research ethics for data science, ethics education in computing, and broadening participation in computing has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and she is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. Also a public scholar, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on topics of technology ethics and policy, and her research has been covered everywhere from The New York Times to Teen Vogue (though she is particularly proud of her TikToks). She holds a doctorate in human-centered computing and a law degree from Vanderbilt Law School.

Rumman Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models, as well as the United States Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence.

Chowdhury is also Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Previously, she was director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team at Twitter, as well as the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. She was named one of Time's 100 most Influential People in AI, BBC’s 100 Women, Worthy Magazine's Top 100, recognized as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40 and named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI.

Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a master's degree in quantitative methods of the social sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

Keith Enright served as Google’s chief privacy officer and led the global privacy legal, privacy compliance, and consumer protection teams. He joined Google in March 2011 and has more than 20 years of experience in creating and implementing programs for privacy, data protection, compliance, and information risk management.

Prior to joining Google, Enright served as the senior-most privacy executive at two Fortune 500 online and offline retail enterprises, as senior consultant for a leading global consulting practice, and as general counsel for a privately held advertising technology company.

Enright has been a featured speaker discussing online privacy and related subjects on NBC Nightly News, CNN, NPR Talk of the Nation, and other major media outlets. He has been a guest speaker at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is frequently featured at industry events focusing on technology, privacy and data protection.

Enright serves on the board of directors of Zoom Information, Inc. He also serves on the board of directors of DECODE, a nonprofit technology, innovation and entrepreneurship community jointly hosted with U.C. Berkeley and Stanford student organizations, alumni networks and entrepreneurship centers. He previously served on the board of directors of the IAPP and is a member of the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board and the Center for Information Policy Leadership’s Advisory Council.

He is NACD Directorship Certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors, is a member of the Maryland Bar, and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional certification from the IAPP.

Kaag believes philosophy is the “stuff of everyday life.” The chair of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and an award-winning author of several books (including the forthcoming American Bloods), he explores topics important to all of us: our mental and physical health, our happiness and emotional well-being, and how we can find our deeper purpose. Kaag’s work is especially timely today, revealing how we can consciously respond to grief and move forward with hope and pragmatism. His talks — intimate, soulful, and wise — teach us how to develop a personal philosophy that will ultimately help us lead better, more fulfilling lives.

The father of American philosophy, William James, once asked: “Is life worth living?” It was not a theoretical question, but a very real one: “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life — his life,” writes Kaag. In his deeply personal, thought-provoking book, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds, Kaag looks to philosophy, but also empirical psychology, to help answer some of life’s biggest questions — using his own life as the template. In doing so, he confronts the challenges and uncertainties that we will all face: how should we process feelings of isolation and meaninglessness? How should we approach romantic relationships or raise our children? And how should we balance our routines, necessary and yet often anesthetizing, with the spontaneity and indulgence needed to truly experience life? Practical, compelling, and crucial for the anxiety-inducing times we live in, Kaag’s book shows us how to actively pursue a life worth living. Chosen as one of Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club’s most anticipated non-fiction books of spring, “Sick Souls, Healthy Minds” has been described as “earnest [and] accessible” (New Yorker), “pithy and exacting” (Wall Street Journal), and “characteristically elegant” (New York Times Book Review).

Kaag’s latest book, “American Bloods,” is an expansive and unflinching history of our nation. It is told through the story of one of America’s first pioneer families, the Bloods, who were active participants in virtually every pivotal moment in American history, coming into contact with everyone from Emerson and Thoreau to Frederick Douglass and William James. Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British civil wars all the way to the beginning of the 20th century, revealing the making of America, the soul of our nation, and how we got to where we are today. Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin calls it “a breakout book for John Kaag —the natural extension of his genre-defining writing.”

John is also the author of several other books. His debut, “American Philosophy: A Love Story,” was chosen as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016, selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and took home the John Dewey Award in American History. His book “Hiking with Nietzsche,” also an NPR Best Book of 2018, is described as “a stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection.” His other books include “Be Not Afraid of Life” and “Henry at Work.” As a teacher, Kaag is both approachable and profound, introducing audiences to deep, life-altering concepts that have the power to influence where we find meaning and how we become who we are.

In addition to his role as professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Kaag is the external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a professor of philosophy and writing at Outlier.org (an offshoot of Master Class). His engaging teaching style has earned him a number of awards throughout his career, including the University of Massachusetts Teaching Excellence Award (awarded to one professor across the university system) and Harvard’s Bok Center Award for Teaching Excellence. He has appeared with Derren Brown at the Barbicon Theatre to talk about living through suffering. John has written extensively in academic philosophy but his work has also appeared in popular media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Outside magazine, The Paris Review and Harper’s magazine. Kaag studied at the University of Cambridge and received his doctorate in American philosophy from the University of Oregon.

Jenn Louie is the founder of the Moral Innovation Lab, based on her research initiated at Harvard Divinity School, and a product manager at the Applied Social Media Lab. Her research is a compassionate interrogation into how technology is shaping our moral futures and how conflict and social inequities and are recreated through unexamined moral inheritances that get translated into tech governance and design.

She is an advocate for improving moral literacy for technologists and believes in cultivating innovation as a moral practice. Her Berkman Klein research interests lie at the intersection of moral futurism, AI governance, design systems, youth and media, social media governance and the compounded impact on global affairs, society and diplomacy.

Prior to attending Harvard Divinity School, Louie served as the former head of business integrity operations for the Pages, Groups, Messenger and Events platforms at Facebook. She previously served as the first head of trust & safety at Meetup.com, and established her career at Google in product policy and then in monetization strategy for new products.

During the pandemic, Louie co-founded Year Zero Studios, a social impact tech company and incubator focused on the future of work and public interest technologies. She is also the co-founder of the Spiritual Care Project.

Louie is an industry expert in online user policy, content moderation, scaled enforcement operations for social media, product integrity, building internal governance tools and dashboards, and community support operations. She has spoken on online risk, tech governance and tech policy at SXSW, IDEO, Techweek NYC, the NYPD Cyber Intelligence & Counterterrorism Conference, and the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium.

Casey Newton is the founder and editor of Platformer, an independent publication devoted to exploring the intersection of technology and democracy. Of Platformer, it is said “there’s no better way to understand how social networks and the modern internet shapes our lives.” Always evolving with the news, Newton’s current work focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence, how social media affects human behavior and politics, government regulation of Big Tech, as well as the declining trust in government and ongoing threats to democracy. He also co-hosts Hard Fork, the critically acclaimed New York Times podcast about the future that is already here, alongside Kevin Roose.

Offering a mix of original reporting, analysis, and commentary, Platformer serves as a daily live blog for this tumultuous period in the history of technology and governance. Over 150,00 people — including big tech executives and their counterparts in academia, government, and journalism — trust the newsletter to keep them informed on the industry’s most important developments of the day. Nothing quite captures the significance of the newsletter to the tech community more than the anecdote that many Twitter employees, during Elon Musk’s takeover, learned of their layoffs from Platformer, not through internal means.

In 2020, Newton was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for his series of investigative reports about content moderation that lead to a $52 million settlement for Facebook moderators who developed PTSD on the job.

Prior to founding Platformer in 2020, Newton spent 10 years covering Silicon Valley for The Verge, CNET, and the San Francisco Chronicle. While at The Verge, he authored The Interface, a daily newsletter with over 20,000 subscribers, and hosted the Converge podcast, offering humorous and revealing conversations.

Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the bestselling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money,” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, “The Shift”, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. He is a recurring guest on The Daily and appears regularly on leading TV and radio shows. He writes and speaks frequently on top¬ics including automation and artificial intelligence, social media, disinformation and cybersecurity, and digital wellness.

Worried that he was not ready for a world dominated by AI, automation, and mind-morphing algorithms, Roose decided to do what reporters do: he interviewed experts, read a ton of books and papers, and went in search of answers. The result was his book, “Futureproof,” a guide to surviving the technological future. Originally published in 2021, “Futureproof” was rereleased in late 2023 to address the more recent trends in AI and technology and how to work with them rather than against them.

Roose is the host of two podcasts of the New York Times: “Hard Fork,” a weekly chat show with Casey Newton about the wild frontier of technology, and “Rabbit Hole,” an eight-part series released in 2020 about how the internet is influencing our beliefs and behavior.

Roose’s first job in journalism was unique: as a sophomore in college, he took a semester off and went undercover at Liberty University, Jerry Falwell’s evangelical Christian school. His goal was to figure out what life was like among people who he considered his polar opposite. From his experience came his first book, “The Unlikely Disciple,” a memoir of a strange and enlightening semester “abroad.”

After college, Roose joined The New York Times, followed by New York magazine, and wrote a second book: “Young Money,” which chronicled the lives of eight junior Wall Street investment bankers right after the 2008 financial crisis. Before rejoining The Times in 2017, Kevin produced and co-hosted a TV documentary series about technology, called “Real Future.”

At The Times, Kevin writes about technology and its effects on society. Recently, that has meant a lot of coverage of companies like Facebook and YouTube, as well as profiles of internet person-alities like PewDiePie, and social phenomena like online radicalization and workplace automation.

Max Schrems is the honorary chairman and founder of noyb, a privacy enforcement platform that brings data protection cases to the courts under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Schrems first came to notoriety as an Austrian law student who filed a complaint to the Irish Data Commissioner that Facebook Ireland was illegally sharing his personal data with the U.S. government, following the revelations of Edward Snowden. The case, known as "The Schrems case" or "Schrems I," eventually led to the invalidation of the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement between the EU and U.S. Schrems later amended his complaint against Facebook Ireland with the Irish Data Protection Commission after Facebook switched its transfer mechanism from Safe Harbor to standard contractual clauses, leading to a new referral to the CJEU implicating both standard contractual clauses and the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. On 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated Privacy Shield and placed additional requirements for companies using standard contractual clauses to third countries outside the EU.