EPIC Adds Four Advisory Board Members
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) added current and former government officials and academics to its advisory board, it announced Wednesday. The four new members will help EPIC bolster its policy work at the state level on AI and data protection, counter the White House's deregulatory push that "has threatened children's privacy protections" and "created ... risks that industry interests will be prioritized over consumer safety."
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Julia Lane is on the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure and formerly served as senior advisor in the Office of the Federal CIO at the White House. Chris Gillard is co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute, as well as a member of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board.
Sharrona Pearl is the Andrews Endowed Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas Christian University, where her research focuses on facial recognition technology and AI ethics. Kate Starbird is a professor at the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, where she researches toxic online spaces.