Privacy - Campus Viewpoint

Privacy - Campus Viewpoint

At a time when the lives of many have been dramatically disrupted and work, education, and society’s functions are in a state of constant transition, this new series from ThinkND will explore this point in history and how the work happening on Notre Dame’s campus and beyond relates to and impacts the United States and the world at large. Privacy virtual events will be the following Thursdays:

  • November 5, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ET: Campus Viewpoint
  • November 12, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ET: National Viewpoint
  • November 19, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. ET: Global Viewpoint
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Featured Speakers: 

  • Corey Angst, Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business
  • Kirsten Martin, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business
  • Mark McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center
  • Ann Tenbrunsel, David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics in the College of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame

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Corey Angst

Presented by Corey Angst

Corey Angst is a Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. He conducts research on the transformational effect of IT, societal impacts of technology usage, how (or if) IT creates value, and privacy in the information age. Much of his work is set in the U.S. healthcare context. His current work examines ethical questions related to the informed consent process used in the healthcare industry. He is also interested in ethical questions associated with the design, deployment, use, and societal impacts of artificial intelligence. Angst teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in problem solving, strategic use of IT, and data exploration and visualization. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. 

“I won’t be surprised to see privacy concerns spike as the COVID pandemic ramps down and people begin to take stock of all of the personal information that has been collected about them. We’ve let down our guard…mostly for altruistic reasons because we think there will be societal and health benefits of providing more private information, like our location via contract-tracing. But I think it is going to be alarming – or maybe enlightening – to discover what has happened.” 

Corey Angst
Corey Angst giving a talk in San Diego.

Learn more about Corey Angst’s work:

Kirsten Martin

Presented by Kristen Martin

Kirsten Martin is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business. She researches privacy, technology, and corporate responsibility. She has written about privacy and the ethics of technology in leading academic journals across disciplines (Journal of Business Ethics, BEQ, Berkeley Law and Technology Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Journal of Legal Studies, Washington University Law Review, Journal of Business Research, etc.as well as practitioner publications such as MISQ Executive. She is the Technology and Business Ethics editor for the Journal of Business Ethics and the recipient of three NSF grants for her work on privacy, technology, and ethics. Dr. Martin is also a member of the advisory board for the Future Privacy Foruma faculty fellow at ND-TEC (Technology Ethics Center), and a faculty affiliate at Northeastern Law’s CLIC. She is regularly asked to speak on privacy and the ethics of big data, including her recent Tedx talk. Her book with Ed Freeman and Bobby Parmar, “The Logic of AND: Responsible Business without Trade-Offs,” was published in Spring 2020. Kirsten earned her B.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.    

Learn more about Kristen Martin’s work in her TED Talk “It’s Not Their Story to Tell: Why Companies Should Respect Privacy Online.”

Mark McKenna '97 (Moderator)

Presented by Mark McKenna

Mark P. McKenna ’97 is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. His research focuses on intellectual property and privacy law, with a particular focus on the ways different regulatory regimes interact with each other. He has published more than 50 articles in leading journals and was the author or co-author of five of the ten most-cited articles in his field during the period of a recent study.  

Professor McKenna joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty on a permanent basis in the Fall of 2008 after visiting for a semester in the Spring of 2008. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Turin University-WIPO Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Program. Before entering the academy in 2003, Professor McKenna practiced with the intellectual property firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, where he litigated trademark and copyright cases and advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia School of Law. 

Ann Tenbrunsel

Presented by Ann Tenbrunsel

Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.B.A. Northwestern University; B.S.I.O.E. University of Michigan) is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics in the College of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame. Ann teaches at the executive, MBA, and undergraduate levels. Her  research interests focus on the psychology of ethical decision making, examining why employees, leaders and students behave unethically, despite their best intentions to behave to the contrary. Ann is the author, co-author, or co-editor of six books on this topicincluding her most recent “Blind Spots” with Max Bazerman—and more than 50 research articles and chapters. Her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC, PBS and National Public Radio, and adaptations, excerpts, and references to her work have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, US News and World Report, Sports Illustrated, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, and Forbes and in blogs for Psychology Today and Freakonomics.

“If individuals could rid themselves of self-deceit, then they would be more capable of making moral decisions and leading nobler lives.”

Sissela Bok, 1978

Learn more about Ann Tenbrunsel’s research in the video and articles below:

Talk at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University by Ann E. Tenbrunsel titled Blind Spots: Why We Aren’t as Ethical as We Think We Are.

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