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As digital technologies and social media increasingly govern the ways we work and socialize, the business logic that undergirds these digital platforms has become clear: we are their product. We give tech and social media companies information about everything--where we live and work, what we like to do for entertainment, what we consume, where we travel, and what we think politically. We do this willingly, but often without a full understanding of how this information is stored or used, or what happens to it when it streams into the data centers of hostile states. The flow of our data to China in recent years in particular poses grave privacy and national security questions.
Join us on March 13 as we hear from Aynne Kokas, the C.K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center, the Director of the UVA East Asia Center, and an associate professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, as she argues that both corporations and governments "traffic" much of this data without our consent--and sometimes illegally--for political and financial gain.
