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RECENT HAPPENINGS

BU Law Welcomes Woodrow Hartzog 2022

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Northeastern University Faculty Research Award 2021

Boston University School of Law welcomes Woodrow Hartzog as a full-time professor of law. Previously, Hartzog was a visiting professor at BU Law in 2020. He will be teaching Information Privacy Law this fall.

Northeastern University Faculty Research Award 2021

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Northeastern University Faculty Research Award 2021

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor with joint appointments in the Northeastern University School of Law and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, received the Excellence in Research and Creativity faculty award. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Professor Woodrow Hartzog, an internationally recognized expert in the area of privacy, media and robotics law, has been appointed to a special legislative Commission on Government Use of Facial Recognition Technology.

10 Most-Cited Law & Technology Scholars in the U.S. 2021

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

Massachusetts Facial Recognition Commission Appointment 2021

Based on the latest Sisk data, Professor Hartzog is among the ten most-cited law faculty in law & technology (including Internet law [cyberlaw], informational privacy, cybersecurity, and AI/robotics) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020

Hartzog, Mislove & Choffnes Awarded NSF Grant 2020

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

“The idea is we don’t just want to be a tempest in a teapot of privacy research where we make a lot of noise, but nothing changes,” Choffnes said. “By having integrated onto our team folks like Woody Hartzog—and counterparts at other universities—we can turn our findings and observations into recommendations for new laws that would take our recommendations and put them into practice.”

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It's Inaccurate, But Even Worse When It’s Accurate’ 2019

Facial recognition technology can be wildly inaccurate and prone to replicating the racial or gender-based biases of the engineers who created it, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern. 

Coursera Course: Data Privacy Fundamentals

Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is translated into Korean

Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is translated into Korean

Offered by Northeastern University through Coursera, this course is designed to introduce data privacy to a wide audience and help each participant see how data privacy has evolved as a compelling concern to public and private organizations as well as individuals.

Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is translated into Korean

Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is translated into Korean

Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies is translated into Korean

The popular book on Privacy and Design is now available in Korean.

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