In partnership with the Ian Axford Fellowships in Public Policy, IPANZ is bringing you a mini webinar series introducing you to the 2024 fellows and the work they will be doing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
These fellowships are for outstanding mid-career American professionals to research and gain first-hand experience of public policy in Aotearoa New Zealand for three to five months.
First up we are also joined by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, who will be hosting fellow Rachel Levinson-Waldman. Rachel is the managing director of the Brennan Center's Liberty & National Security Program in America. Rachel’s area of focus has been state use of surveillance programmes and tools like license plate readers, cell phone trackers and social media technologies, and while in Aotearoa New Zealand she will be working in the realm of privacy, social media, and artificial intelligence.
Join us as Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster, Deputy Privacy Commissioner and IPANZ President Liz MacPherson, and Rachel discuss this interesting work! There will be opportunity to ask questions and interact with our speakers.
You can register for this event here.
“I am thrilled to join the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner, where I will have the opportunity to contribute to the office’s work on some of the most challenging issues in the realm of privacy, social media, and artificial intelligence. I have been working on these issues for years in the U.S., and I believe this exchange can be beneficial to the development of policies and norms in both countries.”
To prepare for this session you might like to read some of Rachel's work.
- Report on watch listing and risk prediction systems used by the Department of Homeland Security (2023)
- Overview of the use of social media by DHS, the FBI, and the U.S. State Department (2022)
- White paper on legal, technological, and policy considerations for use of automatic license plate readers (2020)
- White paper on cell phone surveillance (2018)
- Law review article on law enforcement use of social media (2018)
- Law review article proposing a constitutional framework for analysis of law enforcement use of surveillance technologies in public spaces (2017)
For more information about the an Axford Fellowships in Public Policy you can visit their website here.
For more information about the work the Office of the Privacy Commissioner you can visit their website here.