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Sean McDonald
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Technology : governance :: governance : technology. @FrontlineSMS @DigitalPublic @CIGIOnline #datatrusts Mr. @techladylaura Pic @yukoart he/him
Jul 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This was always where we were headed: emergency research ethics. This is such an incredibly delicate thing to do well - and it should apply to more of our emergency interventions than just vaccine testing.

ssir.org/articles/entry… "Without functioning infrastructure, institutions, or systems to coordinate communication, technology fails... often without the tools to measure, monitor, or correct the failures that result... endured by populations already under tremendous hardship."
Apr 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Really enjoying @EdFelten's webinar on technology and COVID19.

A few quick thoughts!

We agree - immunity passports have huge, dangerous issues. @EdFelten My primary thoughts remain wanting to see/understand more science on the digital footprint of "transmission events," - because I haven't seen proximity tracking rise to the level I would want to alerting people to elevated risk in a system w/limited treatment capacity.
Feb 25, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
For as long as I’ve been involved in digital rights advocacy, I’ve struggled with bridging operational pragmatism and principled, inclusive governance.

Polarization over legal theories (OSS, data as X, etc.) has made that harder. Data governance is next. [thread] Governance in transition is, by design, deliberative. In many societies, it aspires to be representative. Digitization is a scale change in power balances, which has effects on most of the way we design all kinds of rights protection systems, from human to property to political
Dec 11, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I've read this new piece from @lawgeek and @katecrawford - and it's good! Legal arguments are best thought of as “yes, and!” debates. I agree that the problem is super important, but disagree with the proposed solution.

A short thread (1/13)!

columbialawreview.org/wp-content/upl… The paper is well-reasoned + legally inventive - but it starts from the problem (weak liability for public use of unreasonably or unknowably risky ‘artificial intelligence’ technologies in public services) without acknowledging the process that creates those problems. (2/13)