Predatory Data: Feminist Resistance to Eugenics in Big Tech
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Anita Say Chan about her new book, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future.
Techno-surveillance, algorithmic control, and data-driven discrimination have become routine features of our social landscape. But the Age of Big Data has important precedents in earlier eugenicist and anti-immigrant movements, with lasting consequences for how data is collected and used today. Chan analyzes how contemporary Big Tech is built on data that exploits women and immigrants and reinforces social inequalities. At the same time, Chan looks to the past for previous models of feminist resistance to institutional research and data practices, which continue to inspire today’s data-justice activists.
Bio: Anita Say Chan is a feminist and decolonial scholar of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Media Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Co-hosted by the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy (Humphrey School) and the Charles Babbage Institute of Computing, Information, and Culture (HSTM, CSE).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology (CLA); Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change; the Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Women's Center.
