$450,000
2021 • 3 years • Technology in the Public Interest
Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology (the Center) is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy—and the communities they affect. The award provides flexible support to the Center as it works to build the capacity of organizations to identify and respond to surveillance; expose—and diminish—the negative impacts of government and corporate surveillance, especially on vulnerable individuals and communities; refocus policy conversations about privacy and surveillance away from the technologies themselves and towards the underlying social and political systems that employ those technologies; and, train the next generation of privacy advocates to have an understanding of law, policy, technology, and political power. Through this work, the Center seeks to protect the right to privacy for all people, and to support historically marginalized communities to organize and advocate against mass surveillance.
$15,000
2021 • 2 years • Technology in the Public Interest
The Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy—and the communities they affect. The award supports the 2021 Color of Surveillance Conference. Held biennially, the conference highlights the disproportionate burden of surveillance on vulnerable communities. The 2021 conference is entitled The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Gender and Sexuality.
$35,000
2019 • 4 months • Technology in the Public Interest
The award supports the Center on Privacy and Technology’s 2019 Color of Surveillance conference focused on the disproportionate surveillance of poor and working communities.
$450,000
2018 • 3 years • Technology in the Public Interest
The Center on Privacy and Technology (the Center) is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy. The award provides flexible support to the Center as it works to expose and diminish the negative impact of government surveillance and invasive commercial data practices on vulnerable communities in the U.S.; provide an intellectual and technical foundation for reforms of U.S. commercial privacy laws; and, train the next generation of lawyers and technologists seeking to protect privacy in the digital age.
$10,000
2018 • 4 months • Technology in the Public Interest
The award supports The Color of Surveillance conference, an annual event focused on the surveillance of minorities held by the Center on Privacy and Technology.
$34,000
2017 • 2 months • Technology in the Public Interest
The Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank studying the impact of technology on privacy and surveillance law and policy. The grant supports a report that will technically and legally analyze the privacy, civil liberties and civil rights impacts of a Department of Homeland Security plan to scan the faces of air passengers departing the United States.
$300,000
2016 • 2 years • Technology in the Public Interest
The Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy. The award supports the Center’s work to expose and diminish the negative impact of government surveillance and invasive commercial data practices on vulnerable communities in the U.S. and provide an intellectual and technical foundation for broad reforms of outdated U.S. commercial privacy laws.