Unmasking the Avengers: Shifting Roles of Facial Recognition

Presented at Diana Initiative 2020 Virtual, Aug. 22, 2020, 1 p.m. (60 minutes).

Your voice may be your password, but what happens when it’s your face and there’s a data breach or the data is wrong? What happens to your privacy and security when all of the data is right? No longer solely for use by protestors or comic book characters, facial recognition algorithms are racing to adjust for the increased use of facial masks in public. Caught up between protests and COVID19 are cellular data and biometric data sets, shared with and utilized by law enforcement in often unintended ways. A growing number of public/private partnerships are providing law enforcement access to large data pools. Information that in some cases is incorrect. We’ll take a deeper dive into how privately collected location sharing and facial recognition data is being increasingly leveraged by government and law enforcement.

Presenters:

  • Elizabeth Wharton - Speaker
    Elizabeth (Liz) Wharton is a technology-focused business and public policy attorney who has advised researchers, startups, and policymakers at the federal, state, and local level. She is the Chief of Staff at SCYTHE as well as a member of the Technology & Innovation Council with Business Executives for National Security and a member of the DEFCON CFP Review Board. In addition to serving as the former technology attorney for the World’s Busiest Airport, she also hosted the “Buzz Off with Lawyer Liz” podcast.
  • Suchismita Pahi - Rally Health, Inc.
    Suchi Pahi is a data privacy and cybersecurity attorney with a passion for tech. Her goal at conferences is to make privacy and cybersecurity law more accessible and transparent for people who are directly impacted by these legal frameworks, and to explore new developments on the tech side. She has a depth of experience in managing incident response and health privacy regulatory issues, as well as in building effective cybersecurity and privacy programs, partnering with product teams to create products that embed privacy, and counseling clients on privacy and cybersecurity implications of new technologies or services. She is currently Acting Chief Privacy Officer at Rally Health, Inc.

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