Feb 8, 2017
The digital revolution is generating massive amounts of
information. And while this big data certainly benefits researchers
and consumers, it also poses significant privacy concerns. In this
WooCast episode, Tim Lee of Vox interviews Princeton professors
Prateek Mittal and Matt Salganik about the benefits, risks and
concerns related to big data. This episode is part of a series
featuring moderators and panelists who will participate in the
Princeton-Fung Global Forum: “Society 3.0+: Can Liberty Survive the
Digital Age?” The conference, to be held March 20-21 in Berlin, is
being organized by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. Timothy B. Lee is a senior correspondent at
Vox.com, where he covers technology and economics. He previously
covered technology policy for The Washington Post and Ars Technica.
He holds a master's degree in computer science from Princeton.
Follow him on Twitter: @binarybits Prateek Mittal is an assistant
professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton
University, where he is also affiliated with the Center for
Information Technology Policy. His research aims to build secure
and privacy-preserving communication systems. His research
interests include the domains of privacy enhancing technologies,
trustworthy social systems and internet/network security. His work
has influenced the design of several widely used anonymity systems.
Matthew Salganik is professor of sociology at Princeton University,
and he is affiliated with several of Princeton's interdisciplinary
research centers including the Office for Population Research, the
Center for Information Technology Policy, the Center for Health and
Wellbeing and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. His
research interests include social networks and computational social
science. He is the author of the forthcoming book "Bit by Bit:
Social Research in the Digital Age."