Privacy & Security Tech Policy for Minority Communities
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Please join LGBT Tech and HTTP on Wednesday, July 26th for the second event in our Moving the Conversation Forward series. Lunch provided!
Privacy & Security Tech Policy for Minority Communities
As mobile devices become smaller and more ubiquitous, healthcare-enabled hardware integrates easier and free social services continue to become more sophisticated our privacy and security settings constantly need to be updated and Terms of Use reviewed. For the average tech user, privacy updates often cross our mind after we’ve fired up our latest gadget and played with it for a while (often after providing personal information). For minority communities, however, we often think about the privacy and security concerns before or while setting up our new app or device. Most minority community members have used tech devices to overcome a lack of communication, self-identification, employment, and education, among other important issues, and have encountered numerous privacy and security vulnerabilities.
Our next event will discuss privacy and security concerns, with a specific focus on minority communities, leveragi
Our Moderator will be:
- Robert Traynham
Our Leading Expert Speakers will be:
- Francisco R. Montero
- Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee
- Kristal Lauren High
Moving the Conversation Forward Series is designed to bring together the brightest minds supporting minority communities in a continued effort to discuss, educate and highlight issues and challenges facing minority communities around technology and telecommunications in the United States. Our hope is to continue advancing positive change for minority communities through collaborative discussions, highlighting potential solutions and the steps necessary to create inclusive policies.
Please find additional information about our moderator and speakers below.
Speakers:
- Francisco R. Montero is a Managing Partner with the law firm of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, specializing in telecommunications, broadcasting, media and technology. Mr. Montero’s practice includes FCC regulatory counseling, corporate finance, asset and securities acquisitions, intellectual property, and real estate and commercial transactions. Mr. Montero is well known as an early advocate for Hispanic and Spanish language media in the U.S. and Latin America. He is on the Board of Directors of the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC). He also helped form and served on the boards of the American Hispanic Owned Radio Association (AHORA), the Spanish Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Minority Media Executives. Frank is the Washington, DC legal representative for the Puerto Rico Broadcasters Association and received the Association’s award for “service to the Puerto Rico radio industry”.
- Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee is a Brookings Institute Fellow of Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation. Dr. Turner-Lee comes to Brookings from the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC), a national non-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media, telecommunications, and broadband industries, where she served as vice president and chief research and policy officer. In this role, she led the design and implementation of their research, policy, and advocacy agendas. Her most recent White Papers at MMTC included, “A Lifeline to High-Speed Internet Access: An Economic Analysis of Administrative Costs and the Impact on Consumers” (March 2016), “Guarding Against Data Discrimination in the Internet of Everything” (September 2015), “Refocusing Broadband Policy: The New Opportunity Agenda for People of Color” (November 2013).
- Kristal Lauren High co-founded and serves as Editor in Chief of Politic365, an online magazine focused on politics and public policy from a multicultural point of view. She also owns and operates a communications and creative engagement company, Digicon Ventures. Prior to launching Politic365, Kristal developed an expertise in broadband adoption among minority, low-income and underserved populations through her work with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Media & Technology Institute. Kristal is a Vice President of the Charlotte NAACP. She is a former Advisory Board member of Blogging While Brown, the nation’s first conference and consortium for bloggers of color, and ColorComm, a networking and professional organization for women of color in communications. Her commentary has been featured on several media outlets, including TVOne, The Hill, RTTV, Ebony, CNN and SiriusXM.
Moderator:
- Robert Traynham is a respected political veteran and communications expert, who, for nearly two decades, has designed and executed impactful programs for elected leaders, political organizations and major corporations. Traynham is currently the vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), working with BPC’s policy experts to advance the organization’s mission to foster workable solutions for the important challenges facing the nation. Drawing on his unique experiences and access, Traynham has been a frequent political analyst and commentator to cable TV, radio and print media outlets—including NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, XM Satellite Radio and the Philadelphia Tribune—providing insightful analysis on the American legislative process and the politics behind it.