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Jack Poulson on censorship

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  • Duration: 50 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Jul 2019

Abstract

In September 2018, Google research scientist Jack Poulson resigned in protest of the proposed censored search engine Dragonfly, said to be in development in partnership with the Chinese government.

In his resignation letter, Jack told his employer:  “Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents.”

Jack will be joining us to talk Dragonfly, state censorship and much more.

Keywords:
  • Dragonfly
  • Google
  • censorship
  • data
  • privacy
  • surveillance

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  • Jack Poulson

    Jack Poulson

    Jack Poulson is a computational mathematician focused on public accountability mechanisms in the tech industry. He was previously applied mathematics faculty at Stanford and a Senior Research Scientist in Google's Research and Machine Intelligence division -- now called Google AI -- a role he publicly resigned over Google's planned censorship and surveillance of dissent and human rights information via Project Dragonfly. He is continuing to foster public accountability in tech through his role as Founder of Tech Inquiry.
  • Ade Adewunmi

    Ade Adewunmi

    Ade is a data strategist at Cloudera's Fast Forward Lab where she helps organisations harness the power of big data and emerging algorithmic techniques to make better decisions.Before that, she worked as a consultant, advising organisations on the development and delivery of their data strategies. Prior to that, she led the Government Digital Service’s Data Infrastructure programme.‍She blogs about the ways in which data can be made useful for organisations and wider society as well as the leadership and organisational cultures that make this possible.
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