UCLA Event on Power and Accountability in Tech, Nov 1-5

[Michael Karanicolas]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is keeping well. Apologies for cross-posting, but I wanted to
drop you a line to let you know about an event we are hosting next week, on
Power and Accountability in Tech. There are a number of names that will
likely be familiar to folks in this space, particularly in the final panel,
which features Goran Marby, alongside David Kaye and Wendy Seltzer.

As always, it's free and open to all. Registration is at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-accountability-in-tech-tickets-186315824647

Best,

Michael Karanicolas
Executive Director
Institute for Technology, Law & Policy
UCLA

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This event will host a series of conversations aimed at framing our
understanding of power and accountability in the tech space.
About this event

The explosive growth of the tech sector has allowed private sector
companies to amass an extraordinary amount of power, to the point where
these entities exercise control over virtually every aspect of our
day-to-day lives. In response, scholars, regulators, and civil society
advocates have advanced a range of proposals aimed at boosting public
accountability across this sector. These include legal solutions, such as
algorithmic fairness rules, as well as novel extra-legal structures,
including new multi-stakeholder bodies which aim to provide a layer of
public engagement and accountability independent of government control.
There are also increasing calls for tough action to bring these companies
to heel, from antitrust investigations to new privacy or data protection
rules meant to disrupt the data-hungry business models that many tech
giants were built around. The diverse, and even contradictory, nature of
these potential solutions reflects a highly diffuse understanding of what
accountability should look like for these new power structures, and of the
proper social response to the unprecedented influence being wielded by the
tech sector.

This event will host a series of conversations aimed at framing our
understanding of power and accountability in the tech space and generating
common understandings of the goal of regulation in this space. The speakers
will address a range of topics related to the consolidation of power and
will reflect a diversity of perspectives on these vital issues.

November 1

12:00 - 1:30 pm PT - Scoping the Problem: Governance Without Accountability

● Sarah Roberts, Associate Professor, Gender Studies, UCLA

● Wafa Ben-Hassine, Principal, Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network

● Nathaniel Raymond, Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale
University

● André Brock, Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies, Georgia
Institute of Technology

● Moderated by: Michael Karanicolas, Executive Director, UCLA Institute for
Technology, Law, and Policy

November 2

12:00 - 1:30 pm PT - Scoping the Problem: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

● Evelyn Aswad, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma; Facebook
Oversight Board

● Alex Hanna, Senior Research Scientist, Google; Lecturer, UC Berkeley
School of Information

● Bernard Shen, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

● Moderated by: Dunstan Allison-Hope, Vice President, BSR (Business for
Social Responsibility)

November 3

12:00 - 1:30 pm PT - Scoping the Problem: The Limits of Regulation

● Mark Lemley, Professor of Law, Stanford

● Kendra Albert, Clinical Instructor, Director for the Initiative for a
Representative First Amendment, Berkman Klein Center For Internet &
Society, Harvard Law School

● Chinmayi Arun, Resident Fellow, Yale Information Society Project

● Moderated by: Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law, UCLA

November 4

12:00 - 1:30 pm PT - Scoping the Problem: The Challenges of Regulation

● Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Global Privacy & Security by Design
Centre, Ryerson University; formerly Information & Privacy Commissioner of
Ontario

● Eduardo Bertoni, Representative of the Regional Office for South America
of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights; formerly National Data
Protection Authority of Argentina.

● Alex Alben, Lecturer, UCLA Law School, formerly Chief Privacy Officer for
Washington State

● Moderator: Andrew Selbst, Assistant Professor, UCLA

November 5

9:00 - 9:10 am - Welcome and Introductions

9:10 - 10:30 am - Panel 1: Understanding Concentrations of Power

● Nikolas Guggenberger, Executive Director, Yale Information Society Project

● Kate Klonick, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University School of Law

● James Park, Professor of Law, UCLA

● Moderator: Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona Law;
Affiliated Visiting Faculty, UCLA Institute for Technology Law & Policy

10:30 - 10:40 - Break

10:40 am - 12:00 pm - Panel 2: Scoping Tech Accountability

● Milton Mueller, Professor and Program Director, Masters of Science in
Cybersecurity Policy, Georgia Tech

● Margot Kaminski, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law

● Mark McKenna, Professor of Law, UCLA

● Katherine J. Strandburg, Professor of Law, New York University School of
Law

● Moderator: Mark Verstraete, Fellow, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law,
and Policy,

12:00 - 12:55 pm - Breakout Room Paper Presentations 1

Room 1: Mapping Social Media Policy Proposals to Harms: Three Interventions
and Their Limitations, Matthew Marinett, University of Toronto Faculty of
Law.

Room 2: The Technologization of Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of Big
Data and Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Cybersecurity and Privacy, Shauhin
A. Talesh and Bryan Cunningham, University of California, Irvine School of
Law.

Room 3: Algorithmic Accountability in the City: Transparency, Impact, and
Consequences, Burcu Baykurt, UMass Amherst.

Room 4: Children’s Digital Privacy and the Case Against Parental Consent, Zahra
Takhshid, University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

1:00 - 2:25 pm - New Accountability Pressures

● Jessica Dheere, Executive Director, Ranking Digital Rights

● Nandini Jammi, Co-founder, Check My Ads

● Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, Communication & Science Studies, UC San
Diego

● Moderator: Isedua Oribhabor, Business and Human Rights Lead, AccessNow

2:30 - 3:25 pm - Breakout Room Paper Presentations 2

Room 1: Treating the Symptom or the Cause: Platform Market Power and the
Australian News Media Bargaining Code, Jake Goldenfein, Melbourne Law
School.

Room 2: Online misinformation: improving transparency in content moderation
practices of social media companies, Alessia Zornetta, McGill University.

Room 3: Probing Personal Data, Lilla Montagnani, Bocconi University, and Mark
Verstraete, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy.

3:30 - 5:00 pm - New Accountability and Governance Structures

● Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead and Counsel, W3C

● Göran Marby, CEO and President, ICANN

● David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine;
Chair of Board of Directors, Global Network Initiative (GNI); formerly UN
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression

● Moderated by: Michael Karanicolas, Executive Director, UCLA Institute for
Technology, Law, and Policy
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