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11.27
4:30p.m. – 7:30p.m.
Morris Arboretum,
11.29
1:00p.m. – 4:00p.m.
Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level
12.2
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12.2
4:30p.m.
Levin Building, 425 S. University Ave.
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Education, Business, & Law
Earlier this month, Facebook announced that it was shutting down its Face Recognition system and will delete more than a billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates. Facebook, now rebranded as Meta, continues to be in the news over public safety concerns.
Anita Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy, is an internationally renowned expert on privacy and data protection law. She weighs in the issues surrounding privacy and safety with Facebook’s facial-recognition system.
“This system was implemented without the informed consent of Facebook users,” she explains. “Users may not have been aware of the extent to which posting photographs entailed a loss of control over the use of the images of family and friends posted on Facebook. All around the world, privacy advocates have been raising alarms about biometric systems that facilitate social control through over-surveillance by government and private actors.”
Read more at Penn Law News.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
After more than a year of delays, Penn faculty and students were able to participate in La Biennale di Venezia architectural exhibition with both virtual and physical submissions.
Campus & Community
An in-person celebration well worth the wait, students wore their custom red T-shirts and plastic foam skimmer hats while waving their canes, as Penn President Amy Gutmann declared them officially seniors on College Green.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
The School of Social Policy & Practice addresses social inequities through research.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Experts across the University share their thoughts on how 9/11 transformed their field, their research, and the world.
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