Privacy On The Ground

• Emotion Recognition and What Nazanin Andalibi's Research Tells Us about Its Impacts

  Emotion recognition is baked into all sorts of software and systems many of us use or experience every day, from video call systems measuring the “mood” at a work meeting, to systems used to gauge distraction at school, or impairment or anger of drivers inside their cars. Despite its increasing proliferation, emotion recognition systems and the data use embedded in them create significant privacy impacts.  What is emotion recognition? Would fixing inaccuracy problems in these systems alleviate the potential harms they enable? Should emotion related data be recognized as a sensitive type of information along with health financial and other sensitive data? How might policymakers address potential harms of emotion recognition? Dr. Nazanin Andalibi, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, has a lot to say about all this, and she has the research to back it up. World Privacy Forum Deputy Director Kate Kaye interviewed Dr. Andalibi in June 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This episode of Privacy on the Ground features music by Old Wave. The Privacy on the Ground intro theme features music by Pangal.

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• Te Mihinga Komene on Ensuring Māori Language Data Flourishes in the Generative AI Era

  In this episode of World Privacy Forum’s Privacy on the Ground, Māori language expert and educator Te Mihinga Komene shares positive and problematic experiences working with tech companies to help build and correct Māori language translation and learning systems. Komene also discusses extractive data collection practices in AI, and why she hopes her scholarly research will help ensure the Māori language flourishes in the generative AI era. She was interviewed by World Privacy Forum Deputy Director Kate Kaye in June 2024 in Rio de Janeiro at the FAccT conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

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• How Eric Hardy Navigates Tensions Between Local Tribal Community Needs and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Policy Goals

  There are often disconnects between data protection policy and actual practice on the ground, especially when policy established on a regional or international level is intended to meet the needs of local communities. Eric Hardy is no stranger to this reality. In his role at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, an Indigenous library at Arizona State University, Hardy is in the thick of it, working out the everyday practical ways that Indigenous Data Sovereignty policies intersect with the priorities of the library and its tribal communities – both on campus at ASU and beyond. In this episode of Privacy on the Ground (a follow-up to our previous episode featuring Labriola National American Indian Data Center Director Alex Soto), Hardy shares his insights and approaches to incorporating Indigenous Data Sovereignty into the Labriola’s community outreach and programs, and discusses the tensions that can emerge when communities aim to establish or implement Indigenous Data Sovereignty policy that may work theoretically or on an international level, but conflict with other pressing, local community needs. Podcast photo: Labriola National American Indian Data Center Senior Program Coordinator, Eric Hardy (left) and Student Library Aid Nataani Hanley-Moraga (right).  

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• Notes from Hip Hop MC-turned Indigenous Librarian Alex Soto on Archiving and Accessing Indigenous Cultural Knowledge

  Turning what Alex Soto refers to as sometimes “lofty, grand” theoretical Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles and protocols into practice can be mundane, even tedious. It could require combing through hundreds of years-worth of paper documents, photos, oral histories of sensitive cultural knowledge in various formats, and other materials. It requires dedicated investments in time and money, and it requires on-the-ground communication and connection with tribal communities. In this talk recorded in April 2024 at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, an Indigenous library on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus near Phoenix, where Soto serves as its first native director, he discussed what this day-to-day reality entails, where the gaps between policy and practice emerge, and what it might take to bring them closer together. This episode of Privacy on the Ground is part of a series from World Privacy Forum exploring Indigenous Data topics through talks with Indigenous leaders who are guiding pathways toward implementing sometimes-theoretical Indigenous data principles in real life practice. Don’t miss the treat at the end of this episode, when Soto, a hip hop MC with a longtime interest in socially-conscious music, spits a rhyme.

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• Introducing Privacy on the Ground

  Every day it seems as though another little part of our lives is reflected in data. From the way we sleep to the way we order food, get a medical diagnoses, get a job -- even how our governments operate.   These interactions, decisions, and automations generate new data, combine it with existing data, share it, analyze it, and compute it. It all means that our earlier understandings of privacy and how to protect it have lost relevance to the rapidly evolving ways we live our lives. Discussions about privacy in relation to government policy, legal compliance, or technical implementation can be complicated, and sometimes pretty inaccessible. But the meaning of privacy and how data use affects us in our real lives is anything but. It is contextual and tangible. In this podcast, you’ll hear talks and stories that reflect what privacy means for real people and real lives. Join World Privacy Forum deputy director and Privacy on the Ground host and producer Kate Kaye in this introductory episode to learn more about what you'll hear on the Privacy on the Ground podcast.  

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