Facial Recognition Technology with Stephen Caines

In this special episode, recorded over two days, we sat down with Simon Zadek(Head, Secretariat, UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs. In August 2020, the Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs (https://digitalfinancingtaskforce.org/) released a report (https://digitalfinancingtaskforce.org/downloads/) detailing their findings, and Simon joined us to share his thoughts and add a bit of context. Listen in as we discuss the report and its implications, digital currencies, social manipulation for good, and how to reframe our ideas of value. UN Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs website: https://digitalfinancingtaskforce.org/ Read the Report: https://digitalfinancingtaskforce.org/downloads/ Read the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/OD_Simon-Zadek.pdf

In this episode, Web2.0 pioneer Richard Whitt (Founder, GLIA.net - https://www.glia.net/) shares his views on data stewardship. Join us as we dive into the notion of a digital fiduciary to learn what those duties might entail, explore whether modern platform companies ought to have something analogous to the Hippocratic Oath instructing them to “Do No Harm,” and break down our relationship with modern tech behemoths: “They get the data, and you get the free cat videos.” Richard can be found on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardswhitt Medium: https://medium.com/@whitt SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=861966 Or reached via email at [email protected]. Read the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Richard-Whitt.pdf

In this episode, national policy expert, podcast host, and best-selling author Steve Phillips discusses race and politics in America. Join us as we discuss what really happened in the 2016 presidential election, how data and technology can help rectify the massive inequality in our country, and the role that race plays in our political landscape against the backdrop of what is possibly the largest social movement in American history: Black Lives Matter. View transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/OD_Steve-Phillips.pdf

In this episode, policy expert Elizabeth Renieris discusses data privacy and ownership. Join us as we explore the intersections between digital data, privacy, and human rights, as well as how we can actualize better privacy protections, who should bear the burden of protecting individuals’ data, and whether self-sovereign data ownership is truly the best way forward in a human-centric world. View the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ElizabethRenieris.pdf

In this special quarantine episode conducted via Zoom, we were thrilled to speak with Prifina founders Markus Lampinen and Paul Jurcys, and explore their vision for a new kind of information marketplace. Join us as we discuss portable data, the future of personalized data, and how everything we understand about the current model might be backwards. View the transcripts: https://stanford.box.com/s/8kuejnc92k9l45pl7w0n1lb19ayz4ari

In this episode, Hong Kong University’s Syren Johnstone brings an international perspective to a discussion about blockchain regulation, and asks foundational questions about the relationship between emerging technologies and the law. Are our securities laws the best framework with which to examine cryptocurrencies? How can blockchain and AI help with things like a pandemic response? And, above all, what does it mean for regulation to be “fit for purpose”? View the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SyrenJohnstone.pdf

In this episode, the team behind the MIT Computational Law Report will be discussing the nature of our relationship with the law. How does law interact with other disciplines, such as business and technology? What happens when we start to think of the law as an algorithm, with measurable outputs? And, possibly most importantly, what does it mean to be a member of Team Human? View the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MIT_CLR.pdf

In this episode, Mike Schmitz sits down with Stanford CodeX Fellow Tony Lai to talk about governance, ethics, community, and the future of work. Tony is a founder of Legal.io, a serial innovator, and is currently doing research with the National University of Singapore's Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (TRAIL).

In this episode, Stanford CodeX Fellow Stephen Caines will be discussing his research, which focuses on facial recognition and AI. Stephen will illuminate some of the corner cases in which the use of facial recognition, especially in a law enforcement context, can raise questions about ethics and data privacy. Read the transcripts: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Our-Data-Stephen-Caines.pdf

Introducing Our Data, a new podcast from the Stanford CodeX Blockchain Group and Tech4Good initiative. Join us as we explore blockchain governance, artificial intelligence, computational law, and more, with a keen focus on the public's interest. Coming January 2020.