{"id":59320,"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-hosts-internet-privacy-expert-sept-9\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-hosts-internet-privacy-expert-sept-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/uri-hosts-internet-privacy-expert-sept-9\/","title":{"rendered":"URI hosts Internet privacy expert Sept. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHarvard professor Harry Lewis is first cybersecurity speaker<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 3, 2014 \u2013 Harry Lewis, an expert on the Internet and its consequences for individual privacy, will be the first speaker in the University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. <\/p>\n


\n\tLewis will pose the tough questions we are facing about privacy and freedom in the digital age in his lecture titled, \u201cToo Much Information?\u201d which will take place in Edwards Auditorium, 64 Upper College Road, on URI\u2019s Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n

The Internet authority\u2019s talk is the first in the series, Cybersecurity and Privacy, which is free and open to the public. Cox Business is the presenting sponsor. <\/p>\n


\n\tLewis is the Gordon McKay professor of computer science at Harvard University and a faculty associate at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of \u201cBlown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Internet Explosion.\u201d <\/p>\n

Lewis will discuss how the digital revolution democratized the creation and communication of all kinds of information, and how society has grown to love being connected round the clock. But Lewis says everything that connects us also tracks us, and that the vast troves of detailed information we willingly provide about our movements, purchases and proclivities are passed to governments, marketers, employers and insurers and saved forever.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cHarry Lewis will provide a survey of the field and set the tone for the colloquium,\u201d said Ed Lamagna, URI professor of computer science and one of four coordinators for the University\u2019s 2014 Honors Colloquium.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cOnce upon a time, (data) storage was expensive,\u201d Lamagna said. Now storage is cheap, and so things that we do and buy are being monitored and saved. When you browse in a bookstore, no one really knows what you are looking for, although there are security cameras. But when you browse at Amazon, they know about the kinds of books you want and the interests you have, and that information can be used for the company\u2019s gain. Google probably knows more about you than your spouse does.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tClick here for a full schedule of Cybersecurity and Privacy<\/a> speakers.<\/p>\n


\nThose unable to attend the lecture can watch it live online at URI Live!<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n


\nPresenting Sponsor: Cox Business <\/p>\n


\nMajor Sponsors: \u2028URI Honors Program.<\/p>\n


\nSponsors: \u2028URI Office of the President;\u2028URI Office of the Provost;\u2028The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment;\u2028The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment;\u2028URI College of Human Science and Services;\u2028URI Talent Development;\u2028URI Multicultural Center;\u2028URI College of Arts & Sciences;\u2028URI Harrington School of Communications and Media;\u2028URI John Hazen White, Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service;\u2028URI College of Pharmacy;\u2028URI College of Engineering;\u2028URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences;\u2028URI College of Nursing;\u2028URI College of Business Administration;\u2028URI Division of Student Affairs;\u2028URI Department of Communications and Marketing;\u2028URI Department of Publications and Services;\u2028URI ITS Instructional Technology and Media Services<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nHarry Lewis

\nPhoto courtesy of Harry Lewis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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