Black Engineer Week. San José State University’s Black Alliance of Scientists & Engineers (BASE) is hosting Black Engineer Week from June 17-24. If Black Engineering students and colleagues who are PIT-UN network members are interested in joining this event, they can email Professor Folarin Erogbogbo directly at folarin.erogbogbo@sjsu.edu. These attendees’ registration fees will be waived.
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What can browser history inadvertently reveal about a person’s health?The Penn-CMU Digital Health Privacy Initiative is trying to answer that question by mapping third-party tracking across the online health ecosystem. Their
work shows possible implications for ad targeting, credit scores, insurance coverage, and more.
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Justice by the Numbers.Learn how an innovative partnership between lawyers for the ACLU of Massachusetts and public interest technologist Paola Villarreal resulted in the single largest dismissal of wrongful convictions in US
history.
