Georgetown University Law Center, Center on Privacy and Technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.