Latanya Sweeney
Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology, HKS and FAS at Harvard Kennedy School
Biography
Harvard Kennedy School
Latanya Sweeney is the Daniel Paul 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, director and founder 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 3 patents, more than 100 academic publications, pioneered the field known as data privacy, launched the emerging area known as algorithmic fairness, 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, being the first black woman to do so, and her undergraduate degree in computer science from Harvard University. Dr. Sweeney creates and uses technology to assess and solve societal, political and governance problems, and teaches others how to do the same.
Expertise
- Politics
- Democracy & Governance
- Science, Technology & Data
Selected Publications
Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
- Boronow, Katherine E., Laura J. Perovich, Latanya Sweeney, Ji Su Yoo, Ruthann A. Rudel, Phil Brown, and Julia Green Brody. "Privacy Risks of Sharing Data from Environmental Health Studies." Environmental Health Perspectives 128.1 (January 2020).
Videos
Latanya Sweeney on the Hardest Challenges to Designing Privacy-Technology Solutions
Path to an Academic Career: Harvard Extension Centennial Convocation with Latanya Sweeney
Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University | Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2018
Technocracy and the Social Contract: Latanya Sweeney (FULL PODCAST EPISODE)
Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture with Prof. Latanya Sweeney: How Technology Impacts Humans
Latanya Sweeney: MyDataCan.org (2012 GET Conference)
WeCode 2017 Keynote: Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University
Dr. Latanya Sweeney: How Technology Will Dictate Our Civic Future
Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University and Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab
FAT* 2018: Keynote Address by Latanya Sweeney - "Saving Humanity"
Data Privacy in the Digital Age – Keynote: Latanya Sweeney
Latanya Sweeney: When anonymized data is anything but anonymous
GHC 16 - Latanya Sweeney Delivers Opening Keynote
Race, Technology, and Algorithmic Bias | Vision & Justice || Radcliffe Institute
Latanya Sweeney | Data Science to Save the World | Stanford 2018
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