‘Data Detox’ Webinar at 13:00-14:30 CET (Brussels time) on Friday, 8th December 2023
UPD: Recorded webinar is available on our e-learning hub.
Are you and/or your organisation in an unhealthy relationship with your data?! Maybe that’s a question you’ve been meaning to answer for a long time, but didn’t quite know how. Or maybe you’re getting increasingly concerned about high profile data breaches, creepy ads following you around the internet, or simply overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data piling up in your systems. If so, now is the time for a little Data Detox!
We invite representatives of civil society organisations and activists from the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to participate in our Webinar ‘Data Detox’ on Friday, December 8, 2023.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The webinar will explore why ‘data detox’ practices matter and how they can make your organisation and your work more effective, safer, and less stressful.
Topics to be covered in the webinar include:
- Case Studies to demonstrate why Data Detox practices matter in practice
- Benefits of Running a Data-Lean Organization
- Personal Data & Political Influence: Data as an asset and as a liability; Third-Party Tracking; Digital Listening; Geotargeting; Mobile Texting: Upcoming Tech
- Best Practices and Compliance, informed by legislation like GDPR, CCPA
- The Detox process: Conducting an inventory; Data minimization
- Social Media and Online Reputation
The webinar will be led by Varoon Bashyakarla. Varoon is a data scientist and statistician who worked with Tactical Tech for several years as part of the Influence Industry project. He started his career working as a data scientist in Silicon Valley. His past statistical undertakings led him to a variety of domains: journalism, public health, public safety, sports, finance, and art. Varoon is pursuing a Master’s degree in Information & Cybersecurity from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his Bachelor’s degree at Yale University, where he double majored in Statistics and Economics. Today, he splits his time between public-interest technology groups and private sector companies. He aims to help bridge these two spheres to foster privacy and security-preserving technologies that respect democratic ideals.
UPD: Recorded webinar is available on our e-learning hub.
