Webinar // Consumer Privacy, Civil Rights and the Future of Innovation
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Location: Webcast
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Description
Join Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP) for a conversation with FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson about consumer privacy, civil rights, and the future of innovation during the Covid-19 health crisis and beyond.
Background
As the world continues to grapple with the social and economic fallout of the Covid19 health crisis; families, businesses, and students are being forced to quickly adapt to a new digital reality elevating the urgent need to establish a federal standard to protect consumer privacy.
Unregulated data collection and use in the United States continues to erode public trust and compound pre existing vulnerabilities faced by historically under connected communities. Black and brown communities specifically not only face unique barriers to adoption, but also the digital literacy skills required to protect themselves from a broad range of harms including: discrimination in employment, health care, and advertising, data breaches, and loss of control over sensitive personal information.
Join HTTP leadership to discuss the important role that civil rights principles play in shaping a federal standard that can ensure basic fairness, prevent discrimination, advance equal opportunity, protect free expression, and promote inclusive innovation across the internet ecosystem.
Keynote Speaker:
FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson
Moderator:
Alejandro Roark, Executive Director, HTTP
Panelist:
Brent Wilkes, Senior Vice President, Institutional Development, Hispanic Federation (HTTP Board Chair)
Sindy Benavides, CEO, LULAC (HTTP Member Organization)
Amy Hinojosa, CEO, MANA, A National Latina Organization (HTTP Member Organization)
Leroy Cavazos-Reyna, Vice President of Government and International Affairs, United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (HTTP member organization)