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Latanya Sweeney

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Angela Sigal Poock.

Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort

Team of 8 works to identify and isolate the infected and those who’ve had close contact with them

Science|

DateSeptember 10, 2020September 11, 2020

Max Weiss.

How I hacked the government (it was easier than you may think)

Though no expert coder, a government concentrator uses bots to show an agency its website vulnerability

Science|

DateFebruary 6, 2020February 6, 2020

Playing like they mean it

Smith Center’s weekend chess tournament drew enthusiasts and masters alike

Campus|

DateApril 30, 2019May 15, 2019

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Sarah Lewis

Picturing vision and justice

Two-day conference explores the nexus of art, race, laws, and norms

Arts|

DateApril 15, 2019April 16, 2019

Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, Department of Government Latanya Sweeney

Voting-roll vulnerability

Study points to potential security weakness in many online registration systems

Science|

DateSeptember 6, 2017September 8, 2017

Latanya Sweeney (left) and Sylvia Barrett were named the new Currier House faculty deans. They will begin in the fall. Sweeney is professor of government and technology in residence and director and founder of the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard. Barrett is an attorney specializing in business law.

New faculty deans appointed

Khurana appoints Sweeney and Barrett to Currier House posts

Campus|

DateMay 9, 2016

A project based out of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science is a winner of the Knight News Challenge. Led by Latanya Sweeney, a professor of government and technology in residence, the project will receive $440,000 in funding.

Harvard project to track personal data wins Knight News Challenge award

‘All the Places Personal Data Goes’ seeks to make data sharing transparent

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DateFebruary 1, 2016

“At the end of the day, online advertising is about discrimination. You don’t want mothers with newborns getting ads for fishing rods, and you don’t want fishermen getting ads for diapers. The question is when does that discrimination cross the line from targeting customers to negatively impacting an entire group of people?” asked Latanya Sweeney, Harvard professor of government and technology in residence, who discovered an advertising bias in Google's search function.

Seeking fairness in ads

Researcher outlines how ‘bias score’ could be calculated in online delivery

Science|

DateApril 30, 2013March 19, 2019

De-identified prescription data: Is it really anonymous? Latanya Sweeney aims to make personal data more secure and to provide recourse for people who are harmed by privacy breaches.

You’re not so anonymous

Medical data sold to analytics firms might be used to track identities

Science|

DateOctober 18, 2011April 17, 2019