Come attend the first event of 2024 for All Tech Is Human's popular montly series in NYC where 200 people who deeply care about co-creating a better tech future come together to mingle, learn from each other, and hear a panel conversation.
For Jan 29th, we are partnering with Consumer Reports to take back control of our data and privacy with Data Action Day! our all-star panel will feature Tracy Chou (founder & CEO of Block Party), Julia Angwin (award-winning journalist, bestselling author, founder of The Markup), and more to be announced soon.
This gathering will fill up quickly, as it is entirely free and includes food, drink, and ample time to get to know others in the Responsible Tech movement. All Tech Is Human draws a broad range of backgrounds, so you will be hanging out with privacy advocates, Trust & Safety professionals, civil society orgs, students, artists, designers, academics, and everyone in between. All are welcome!
January 29th is aimed at raising awareness and fostering data activism among young people, university students, privacy advocates, and all individuals concerned about their digital privacy! This gathering is a call to action to empower end users and make informed choices about one’s online presence. Consumer Reports will also have a demo space where attendees can explore and learn (hands-on) about data privacy! We will also be encouraging engagement in discussions about data action, privacy, ethics, and how to bring the conversation back to campuses, communities, etc.
All Tech Is Human is a non-profit organization committed to tackling complex tech & society issues and creating a conducive environment so we can co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. After interacting with thousands of invidiuals across the globe over the last five years through our gatherings, large Slack community, mentorship program, and more, we have recognized that there are three main areas needed for improvement:
- We need to move at the speed of tech.
- We need to collaborate more and leverage collective intelligence.
- We need to diversify the types of individuals participating in Responsible Tech
After the gathering, there are numerous ways for you to stay involved with All Tech Is Human. Join our Slack community of over 7k members across 87 countries, participate in a working group that advancing the Responsible Tech movement, read our Responsibe Tech Guide and other reports, check out our Responsible Tech Job Board and join our talent pool, participate in our large mentorship program, and much more. You can find all of our projects and links here.
Our most recent collaboration with Consumer Reports happened in June 2023, where we held a panel conversation around biases in algorithms and datasets and held a launch party for the short film series, Bad Input.
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Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur and software engineer known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech. She is currently the founder and CEO of Block Party, which builds tools for online safety and anti-harassment. Their latest product, Privacy Party, makes it easy to find and fix privacy risks on social.
She is also a co-founder of Project Include, a non-profit working to create a tech ecosystem where everyone has a fair chance to succeed. In 2013, her Medium article “Where are the numbers?” helped jumpstart the practice of tech companies disclosing their diversity data. Tracy was an early engineer at Pinterest, Quora, and the U.S. Digital Service.
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer and a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
In 2018, she founded The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impacts of technology on society. From 2014 to 2018, Julia was a senior reporter at the independent news organization ProPublica, where she led an investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2017 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2018.
From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption.
She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).
