Privacy talk on tap at URI

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin will speak at the University of Rhode Island’s Honors Colloquium about privacy on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Her free, public lecture talk – “Is Privacy Becoming a Luxury Good?” – will be held at Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road. It is part of the ongoing Cybersecurity and Privacy colloquium.
Angwin will discuss her efforts trying to protect her privacy, and will raise questions about whether citizens want to live in a society where only the rich can buy their way out of “ubiquitous surveillance.”

The presenting sponsor is Cox Business, which will give away a free iPad mini at the event.

Angwin is a senior reporter for the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she was on a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of corporate corruption. At the Journal, she also led a team covering online privacy that was a finalist for a Pulitzer.

Her book, “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” was published by Times Books in 2014. She is also the author of “Stealing Myspace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America.”

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Angwin received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

Those unable to attend the lecture can watch it live online at URI Live!.
The next talk will be held Dec. 2, and will feature Bruce Schneier, a cyrptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and author of Carry On. He will discuss “Surveillance and Power.”

For information about the Cybersecurity and Privacy forum, click HERE.

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