Building Just Technologies of the Future

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Maggie Gates speaks with Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). STOP litigates and advocates for privacy to ensure that technological advancements don't come at the expense of age-old rights. As a lawyer, technologist, and activist, Albert has become a leading voice on how to govern and build the technologies of the future. He is a frequent commentator with more than 100 articles in publications, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, Wired, Slate, and Newsweek, and he serves on the New York Immigration Coalitions Immigrant Leaders Council.

In today’s conversation, Albert discusses: walking the tactical line between radical change and instrumental victories, police surveillance technology, the risk of children’s privacy technology, anti-abortion digital surveillance, how STOP has taken on the NYPD’s surveillance system, and the ways in which Artificial Intelligence are already undermining civil rights.

Albert Fox Cahn's Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVclObff6fc