Privacy

At a time when the lives of many continue to be dramatically disrupted and work, education, and society’s functions are in a state of constant transition, this lecture explores 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.
Mar 28, 2024

Top 10 Learning Moments

  1. Privacy is different to just about everyone you ask. — Corey Angst
  2. Americans want more legislation to regulate privacy laws with all the data being given out. — Ann Tenbrunsel
  3. People underestimate, especially in this information economy, the way that new technologies plug into existing data. — Mark McKenna
  4. Just because we disclose data doesn’t mean that we don’t have privacy expectations as to what happens to that data. — Kirsten Martin
  5. All of the innovation that is happening today … depends upon our ability to access and use data. — Ryan Harkins
  6. The U.S. is lagging in privacy regulation at the federal level. — Santiago Garces
  7. There is a conflict between the way technology is going … and the way countries are thinking about valuing, storing, and protecting the data of their citizens. — Christina Montgomery
  8. [China] making the distinction between personal information and privacy really means our personal information can be somehow transacted … by individuals or organizations as assets. — Jing He
  9. We’re seeing differences emerge in different parts of the world in terms of the way privacy and data protection work. — Mark McKenna
  10. The famous privacy paradox is that people say they care about their privacy but they don’t act in a manner that’s consistent with what they say. — Rob Corbet

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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

Christine Bannan J.D., Policy Counsel, New America’s Open Technology Institute

Ryan Blaney M.A., J.D., Partner, Proskauer’s Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups

Santiago Garces, Director of Innovation & Performance and CIO, Pittsburgh, PA

Mark P. McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, University of Notre Dame

Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President, IBM Corporation

Rob Corbet, Head of Arthur Cox’s Technology Practice

Jing He J.D., Executive Director, Beijing Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Strategy Research Institute

Mark P. McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, University of Notre Dame

Ryan Harkins, Senior Director of Public Policy, Microsoft

“Just because we disclose data doesn’t mean that we don’t have privacy expectations as to what happens to that data.”

— Kirsten Martin

Why companies should respect our privacy

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