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Fireside Chat on Mapping Data: How the largest tech firms use your data

Open to the Columbia community.

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JOHN BATTELLE – Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor, Co-Founder & CEO of Recount Media

in conversation with MERIT E. JANOW – Dean, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs

on Mapping Data Flows: How the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet

Understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet. We’ve transformed the “Big Four” (Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook) terms of service and data policies — the thousands of lines of code that govern their use of your data — into a database powering an interactive visualization, an initial version of which we invite you to explore and critique.

Researchers associated with this event:

ZOE MARTIN – SIPA MPA

NATASHA BHUTA -SIPA MPA

MATTHEW ALBASSI – MS Data Journalism

VERONICA PENNEY – MS Data Journalism

Lunch will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by SIPA’s TMac, Management Specialization, Tech & Policy Initiative, Entrepreneurship & Public Policy Initiative, Brown Institute for Media Innovation