Last week, I joined MANA’s National President and CEO Amy Hinojosa for the first in a series of luncheon events on the politics of privacy at the AT&T Forum for Technology and Innovation. These luncheons are designed to address why women, communities of color and underserved communities, such as the LGBT community, have specific and different privacy concerns than other groups and should take online and data privacy even more seriously. This first discussion in the series tou

Happy New Year! LGBT Technology Partnership hopes that you have had a relaxing holiday season and are entering 2015 refreshed and with renewed vigor! This year promises to be the year of all things connected with more electronics and apps synced to the Internet than ever before. Policymakers will no doubt spend a considerable amount of time in 2015 examining current regulations in an effort to keep up with an ever-changing tech landscape and make tough decisions on looming p

In our blog post last week, we discussed the top three challenges for the LGBT community arising out of big data collection and analysis. While big data opens up new opportunities for different aspects of scientific research, the new wealth of information also poses unprecedented challenges for privacy. In the report Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) acknowledges that minority groups parti

Digital technologies afford unprecedented possibilities to capture, store and analyze the data we produce by accessing the Internet every day. From websites, apps, social media and other sources we take pictures, share our thoughts and conduct business over the Internet, touching points and major companies that record our every move, also known as “big data”. For scientists, big data opens up new opportunities to better understand various diseases and could potentially help i