The League of Women Voters of Maine presents the next installment in their monthly discussion series Let's Talk About: Digital Threats to Democracy. They will be joined by Professor Latanya Sweeney She is Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, founder and director of both the Public Interest Tech Lab and of the Data Privacy Lab, former Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Latanya Sweeney has three patents, more than 100 academic publications, and her work is explicitly cited in two U.S. regulations, including the U.S. federal medical privacy regulation (known as HIPAA). She is a recipient of the prestigious Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award, the American Psychiatric Association's Privacy Advocacy Award, an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and has testified before government bodies worldwide. She earned her PhD in computer science from MIT in 2001; the first Black woman to do so. 

Suggested reading:

• When Technology and Society Clash: Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy,” Harvard Magazine, November-December, 2024