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About Jake Chanenson
Jake is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, specializing in law-informed research at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), privacy, and technology policy. With a Masters in Law from the University of Chicago Law School, Jake combines technical and legal expertise to address complex questions related to privacy, data, and policy. Jake is an affiliate at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) and their research has been published in top academic venues, including ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.NBN Episodes hosted by Jake:
July 14, 2024
The Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but w…
April 24, 2024
Digital Empires
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are raci…
March 28, 2024
The Privacy Fallacy
Our privacy is besieged by tech companies. Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and…
September 28, 2023
Your Face Belongs to Us
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 p…
September 2, 2023
Industry Unbound
In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech ind…
August 16, 2023
Privacy at the Margins
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P…
August 10, 2023
How Data Happened
From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who …
August 9, 2023
The Internet Con
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 pla…
July 30, 2023
The Private Is Political
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 mat…
April 4, 2023
Human-Centered AI
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, …
March 31, 2023
Beyond Data
Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dign…
March 28, 2023
Privacy's Blueprint
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Inter…
December 17, 2022
The Fight for Privacy
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 ar…