
The privacy crisis is scaring the hell
out of IDH allies on both sides of the aisle.


















“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”
Breaking the News. NBC KARE-11.
Minneapolis, MN: September 13, 2018.
OUR STORY IS THE EASIEST WAY TO UNDERSTAND OUR PRIVACY SOLUTIONS AND SCALING SPEED

Best Paper (Runner Up) Primeaux Award:
"Using Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity
(Paris; Reported in Forbes)
Publications that industry/regular people can understand: Nebraska Lawyer, Omaha World-Herald,
Competition Policy International
Rather than litigating "Data Silos," the IDH OS treats privacy as a Narrative Sanctity issue.
We utilize 2,000 years of rhetorical theory (and 120 of privacy law) to assess data collection via
Post-Digital Character Judgments.
The OS provides a socio-technical logic-gate to protect high-entropy data (e.g., Reproductive Surveillance) where 20th-century legal doctrine and Silicon Valley
"Terms of Service" fail.
Netflix's Coded Bias, ADL, and Bytes Media:
Interactive high school AI curricula;
SXSW EDU
(jury + online vote)
Trainings/Workshops:
American, Iowa, and Nebraska Bar Associations; Indiana Univ.; MN Legal Rights Center;


Strategic Partner on Minneapolis’s
historic, bipartisan facial recognition ban;
Unicorn pro-life/pro-choice coalition
on reproductive surveillance + medical data privacy;
City council testimony;
Intellectual pivot of privacy
to “Cancel Culture”/Social Forgiveness
(NBC KARE-11).

Teaching privacy and surveillance methods to citizens and professionals via local and international art/education/civic events
Digital Rights are Civil Rights
international juried art exhibit
with lawmakers, ACLU, Evangelicals,
Little Earth Native HUD Community,
Native Youth Arts,, ADL, artists.
Trainings/Events:
Plugged In: Surveillance and Tech
(ACLU MN + Lawmakers +. Lewish and Clark University,
plus candidates, and citizen groups)
IDH TOWN HALL ON PRIVACY, COVID, AND HEALTH DATA SURVEILANCE
MAY 2020: PEAK PANDEMIC
Thank you to our local lawmakers on both sides of the aisle: Rep Jeremy Munson, Councilwoman Nancy Yang, and Congressional candidate Rob Barrett.

“Plugging In: Technology and Surveillance Workshop for Advocates and Educators.” Northeast Sculpture Gallery: Minneapolis, MN. October 2021.
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), Councilman Steve Fletcher, Lewis and Clark University.
"Based on available evidence, no other known project has demonstrated the same breadth of bipartisan, Constitutional, and practical impact across
AI alignment, disinformation, privacy, and free speech— with a single, teachable methodology and real-world, peer-reviewed results."
BUT FIXING ROBOTS -- AND HELPING PEOPLE ACTING LIKE ROBOTS -- ISN'T CHEAP, AND WE NEED YOUR HELP. #MINNEAPOLIS

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