Technology & the Pandemic

This week we focus on the intersection of technology, media and the COVID-19 pandemic. The first segment is a discussion with Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer at&nbsp;The Atlantic,&nbsp;a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project,&nbsp;and the author of&nbsp;Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. Then, we listen in on a panel discussion titled Privacy Impacts of Modern Contract Tracing for Future Pandemic Response that took place a the end of January during a day of discussion hosted by Santa Clara county.&nbsp;The panel features Deirdre Mulligan, a Professor in the School of Information at UC&nbsp;Berkeley and a faculty Director of the&nbsp;Berkeley Center for Law &amp; Technology; Brandie Nonnecke, Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab a UC Berkeley; Brian Hofer, Chair of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission; and Steve Penrod, VP of Product Development at TripleBlind. <a rel="payment" href="https://techpolicy.press/donate/">Support this podcast</a>