The UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, in partnership with UCLA DataX, invites you to our Fall kick-off event – the Democracy & Technology Salon.

Join us as we chart the tangled web of tech and power, and identify cleavage points for law and policy. A special evening event to learn about our work and meet our UCLA faculty, centering on a guest panel with invited guests from across California, moderated by ITLP’s new Executive Director and Tech Policy Lead at UCLA DataX, Professor Julia Powles.

Special guests:

• Lisa B. Kim, Senior Privacy Counsel and Advisor, California Privacy Protection Agency
• Dr. Jennifer King, Privacy and Data Policy Fellow, Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
• Brian Merchant, Writer, Reporter, and Author, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017); Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023)

RSVP here.

Biographies:

Lisa B. Kim is the Senior Privacy Counsel and Advisor at the California Privacy Protection Agency. As the Agency’s top privacy protection legal expert, she provides analyses and legal and policy recommendations to the Agency’s Board and Executive Director on privacy and data security issues across all divisions. Lisa led the Agency’s team in drafting new regulations that operationalize the California Privacy Rights Act’s amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including regulations that clarify the law’s data minimization principles, prohibition on dark patterns, and requirements for an opt-out preference signal. Prior to joining the Agency, she was a Deputy Attorney General at the California Attorney General’s Office, where she enforced state and federal privacy laws and drafted the regulations first implementing the CCPA. In 2023, Lisa received the inaugural “Privacy Lawyer of the Year” award by the Privacy Law Section of the California Lawyer’s Association. Lisa received her J.D. at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and her B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Jennifer King is the Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. An information scientist by training, Dr. King is a recognized expert and scholar in information privacy. Sitting at the intersection of human-computer interaction, law, and the social sciences, her research examines the public’s understanding and expectations of online privacy as well as the policy implications of emerging technologies. Most recently, her research explored alternatives to notice and consent (with the World Economic Forum), the impact of California’s new privacy laws, and dark patterns. Her past work includes projects focusing on social media, genetic privacy, mobile application platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital surveillance. Her scholarship has been recognized for its impact on policymaking by the Future of Privacy Forum, and she has been an invited speaker before the Federal Trade Commission at several Commission workshops.  She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, and her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to entering academia she worked in security and in product management for several Internet companies, most notably Yahoo!.

Brian Merchant is a writer, reporter, and author based in Los Angeles. He is also a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. His work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Harper’s, the Guardian, and beyond. Previously, he was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times and the senior editor at Motherboard (RIP). Brian is the author of The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown) and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023, Little, Brown). He co-founded VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform that published a best-of anthology, Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, with MCD Books, in 2022.

Professor Julia Powles is the Executive Director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy at the UCLA School of Law and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, and Tech Policy Lead for the University-wide initiative, UCLA DataX. Professor Powles researches and teaches in the areas of privacy, intellectual property, internet governance, and the law and politics of data, automation, and artificial intelligence.  Prior to joining UCLA, Professor Powles was the founding Director of the UWA Tech & Policy Lab and Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Western Australia. She previously held academic appointments at Cornell Tech, New York University, and the University of Cambridge, and worked at The Guardian, World Intellectual Property Organization, and MinterEllison. Professor Powles earned a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. She also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Law, with First Class Honors, from the Australian National University and University of Western Australia.