Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a Data & Society advisor, is associate professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she also serves as deputy head of department (research) and program director for MSc media and communications (governance). She focuses on inclusion, exclusion, and marginalization, as well as questions around democracy, social justice, and technological governance. Peña Gangadharan co-leads two projects: Our Data Bodies, which examines the impact of data collection and data-driven technologies on members of marginalized communities in the United States; and Justice, Equity, and Technology, which explores the impacts of data-driven technologies and infrastructures on European civil society. In addition to community-based conversations, her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, New York Times, and Al Jazeera.
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New York TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan addresses the question "Can Crime Be Ethically Predicted?" and argues that bias is inherent in the technical systems used in predictive policing leading to "fundam... Read on New York TimesNovember 2015 -
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New York TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that privacy-as-default features "help restore public trust in technology as a tool to improve our lives and collectively self-govern." "When technologies c... Read on New York TimesSeptember 2014 -
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New York TimesIn this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that the "rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterpris... Read on New York TimesAugust 2014