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About Jake Chanenson

Jake is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago and an AY23-24 affiliate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP). Broadly, Jake is interested in HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Jake Chanenson, CS Ph.D. student at UChicago
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NBN Episodes hosted by Jake:

Science, Technology, and Society September 28, 2023

Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Kashmir Hill

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify …
Science, Technology, and Society September 2, 2023

Industry Unbound

The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

Ari Ezra Waldman

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine …
Science, Technology, and Society August 16, 2023

Privacy at the Margins

Scott Skinner-Thompson

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins (Cambridge UP, 2021), Scott Skinner-Thompson highlights …
Science, Technology, and Society August 10, 2023

How Data Happened

A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a …
Science, Technology, and Society August 9, 2023

The Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their platforms after you delete your …
Science, Technology, and Society July 30, 2023

The Private Is Political

Networked Privacy and Social Media

Alice E. Marwick

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice.  …
Science, Technology, and Society April 4, 2023

Human-Centered AI

Ben Shneiderman

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on …
Science, Technology, and Society March 31, 2023

Beyond Data

Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

Elizabeth M. Renieris

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world …
Science, Technology, and Society March 28, 2023

Privacy's Blueprint

The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies

Woodrow Hartzog

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it …
Science, Technology, and Society December 17, 2022

The Fight for Privacy

Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

Danielle Keats Citron

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast array of technology that …