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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future * Anita Chan, iSchool & College of Media

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
NCSA
Location
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL -- and Online/Zoom
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Apr 3, 2025   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Originating Calendar
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

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NCSA Colloquium Series:

Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

* Anita Chan, iSchool & College of Media

Illuminating the throughline between the 19th century's anti-immigration and eugenics movements and our sprawling systems of techno-surveillance and algorithmic apartheid, this talk explains how the insidious legacy of eugenics lives on in the algorithmic authoritarianism, and data-driven discrimination of Big Tech. Chan explains how it happened and how we can draw from a legacy of commitments to data pluralism to fight back. 

WHEN: Thursday, April 3, 12-1PM 

WHERE: National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL -- and Online/Zoom

Pizza & Refreshments will be served. All welcome!



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