Speaker: Prof. Robert Sloan
20 Ottobre 2025 | 11:30
DEIB - NECSTLab Meeting Room (Bld. 20)
Online by Zoom
Contatti: Prof. Marco Santambrogio
Sommario
On Monday, October 20, 2025, at 11:30 am the NECSTLab will host a NECST Special Talk titled "Computer Security and Privacy Meet Public Policy and Law" live from the NECSTLab Meeting Room or online on Zoom.During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Robert Sloan, Professor at University of Illinois Chicago.
This talk looks at how ideas from computer science, public policy, law, and sometimes philosophy, come together to shed light on contemporary problems in cybersecurity and electronic privacy. I’ll start with a short overview of how interdisciplinary work between computer security and law and public policy began, as well as the early work on electronic privacy.
The main part of the talk draws on my ongoing collaboration with legal scholar and philosopher Richard Warner of Chicago-Kent College of Law. Over the past dozen years, our work has asked questions such as: Why is computer security so often weaker than it needs to be? Why has it been so hard to curb behavioral advertising and large-scale tracking? And what exactly is privacy and why do so many people feel there has been a massive erosion of privacy in the past few decades.
I will close by discussing work where we have explored issues concerning how fairness in data-driven decision systems can be improved. Taken together, the work I will discuss aims to show how the combination of technical insight with legal reasoning can help us obtain systems that are more secure, more private, and more just.