Pegah Parsi
Chief Privacy Officer,
University of California San Diego
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle: Unringing the Bell
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 1:30PM–2:00PM CT | W375d, Level 3
Session Type:
Featured Session
Delivery Format:
Featured Session
COVID-19 response demanded new, creative, and frequently invasive uses of data at our campus. We all did what we had to do for continuity of our collective academic mission while protecting our students, faculty, and staff as much as possible. As we look back on the pandemic and forward to the post-pandemic world, this session asks questions about privacy and ethics, starting with "Did we go too far? Which practices, if any, can or should be rolled back?"
Matt Riley is a CIO who experienced COVID-19 response and institutional decision-making at two different campuses during the pandemic. Matt will relate the good, the bad, and the ugly of what he has seen, particularly around the care for student privacy. Pegah Parsi, Chief Privacy Officer at UC San Diego, will offer perspectives from her role dealing with privacy issues pre-, during, and post-COVID. The presenters will use this interactive session to challenge the audience to join the conversation and to think critically about the data-gathering actions, uses of data, and monitoring activities of our campuses during and after the pandemic. Did the pendulum swing too far? How? Has the pendulum swung back, or will it ever? What lessons can be learned and applied to future emergencies?
