Hi, all – I met with some of the folks at Data & Society while I was in NYC last month. They’re doing pretty cool stuff. Their call for 2016-2017 fellows is now open – I encourage you to check it out and pass this along to any interested folks you might know. Cheers! Melody -- Melody Clark Communications Specialist Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) University of Washington Information School melclark@uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.303.7910 Twitter: @taschagroup<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> From: Data & Society Research Institute [mailto:info=datasociety.net@mail46.atl71.mcdlv.net] On Behalf Of Data & Society Research Institute Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:53 AM To: Melody Clark <melclark@uw.edu> Subject: Call for fellowship applications; Data Access Grant; more [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/light-twitter-48.png]<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=223d6c6845&e=8e6c9be085> [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/light-facebook-48.png]<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=92b3b72325&e=8e6c9be085> [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/light-youtube-48.png]<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=c8ac6cee9f&e=8e6c9be085> [http://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/light-link-48.png]<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=a33dc078b0&e=8e6c9be085> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/00b33d1beca407762446037f0/images/f8e1ba3e-29cd...] Oct 21, 2015 updates and ideas from the D&S community and beyond Around the Institute • We are now accepting applications for the 2016-17 class of Data & Society fellows!<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=2b44e580ef&e=8e6c9be085> We are looking for a diverse group of people who can see both the opportunities and challenges presented by access to data and who have a vision for a project that can inform the public or shape the future of society. The application deadline is December 1, 2015. • Call for Data Access Grant applications<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=6fd83a8892&e=8e6c9be085> The Survey Research into the Privacy and Security Experiences of Low-SES Populations project includes a “Data Access Grant” that will provide early access to the survey dataset to a graduate student. The application deadline is December 1, 2015. • What World Are We Building?<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=cd8933055b&e=8e6c9be085> "This was not what my peers set out to create when we imagined building tools that allowed you to map who you knew or enabled you to display interests and tastes. We didn’t architect for prejudice, but we didn’t design systems to combat it either." —danah boyd Around the Around • Targeted Surveillance, Civil Rights, and the Fight for Democracy<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=c8c6333ab9&e=8e6c9be085> “Today mass incarceration and mass surveillance walk hand in hand. Mass deportation and mass surveillance walk hand in hand. Economic inequality and mass surveillance walk hand in hand. Yet, the movements built to solve these problems do not. They remain fractured.” —Malkia Cyril • Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=396e5b6c33&e=8e6c9be085> "Both Ancestry.com and 23andMe stipulate in their privacy policies that they will turn information over to law enforcement if served with a court order. 23andMe says it’s received a couple of requests from both state law enforcement and the FBI, but that it has ‘successfully resisted them.’" —Kashmir Hill Upcoming Events / NYC October 21 BetaNYC Civic Hacknight<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=2f58fc55bf&e=8e6c9be085> (Civic Hall) October 21 Runaway Capitalism: Is the “Uber Economy” Slighting American Workers?<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=f74a43b69b&e=8e6c9be085> (New America) October 22 Databite No. 57: Scott Westerfeld: surveillance and identity in dystopian young adult novels<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=28bde277d9&e=8e6c9be085> (Data & Society) October 24-25 Radical Networks <http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=0336d14eeb&e=8e6c9be085> (NYU Poly + Eyebeam) November 13-14 Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=0ff7482766&e=8e6c9be085> (The New School) November 18 Fireside chat with Paul Nemitz, Director, DG Justice, European Commission<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=1f3dd710c5&e=8e6c9be085> (Fordham CLIP + IAPP) November 19 Responsible Use of Open Data in Government and the Private Sector<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=e96d9cf991&e=8e6c9be085> (BCLT + NYU ILI + NYU MCC) January 15 Responsible Data Forum: Data Visualization<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=a1f478cd78&e=8e6c9be085> (the engine room + Data & Society + ThoughtWorks) Upcoming Events / elsewhere October 21-23 Privacy + Security Forum<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=cceb648fbd&e=8e6c9be085> (Washington, DC) November 6 Fifth Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=2f5d82db5b&e=8e6c9be085> (Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University) November 11-13 Disrupting Mobility <http://datasociety.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=b671933138&e=8e6c9be085> (Cambridge, MA) November 16 Workshop on Cross-Device Tracking<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=d4fb68f1c1&e=8e6c9be085> (Federal Trade Commission) January 14 PrivacyCon<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=1ff08d6a4a&e=8e6c9be085> (Federal Trade Commission) April 1-2 Unlocking the Black Box: The Promise and Limits of Algorithmic Accountability in the Professions<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=b4af2d7acc&e=8e6c9be085> (Yale ISP) April 1-2 (proposal deadline: November 1) We Robot 2016<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=c01287ee02&e=8e6c9be085> (University of Miami School of Law) May 6-7 (abstract deadline: December 1) Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics<http://datasociety.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=00b33d1beca407762446037f0&id=3550858d32&e=8e6c9be085> (The Petrie-Flom Center) Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development. 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