Technology to Save the World Poster Session

Technology to Save the World Poster Session Tuesday, 5/2. 10AM – 12PM CGIS Knafel Café (1737 Cambridge St, 1st Floor) Food provided Join us on Tuesday, May 2 to see posters from students in the Politics of Personal Data and in Technology to Save the world that answer: How accurately can we predict Social Security Numbers? Do politicians behave differently on Twitter following a terrorist attack? What about during a crisis abroad? Can you find out which homes are rented out on Airbnb? Who's spreading fake news via ads on social media and where else are they advertising? Can Amazon learn about background sound in a room through Alexa? How vulnerable are Chinese citizens and companies to fraud from identity theft using easily attainable personal information? Do anonymization techniques like k-anonymity reduce the utility of datasets? How do Russians on Twitter respond to allegations of Russian interference in Western elections? How many individuals are observed by different commercial tracking platforms on the Internet? Are political preferences and music tastes linked? Can police body cam footage identify protected individuals? Which states and counties in the US would be most likely to change the outcome of an election? Are iOS and Android apps different in the US and EU to comply with local privacy laws? How does the targeting of prediction accuracy in sentencing algorithms lead to different false positive and false negative rates for Black and White individuals? Are Alt-Right and Anonymous the new mafia? And more!