Conversations with Society + Technology, the interview series produced by Society + Technology at UW, dives into a conversation about the power of data protection with Angelina McMillan-Major, Ph.D., a computational linguist.

In the interview, McMillan-Major and host Monika Sengul-Jones discuss protecting personally identifiable information, consent, and what concessions consumers may be making in the interest of convenience.

McMillan-Major completed her doctorate in Computational Linguistics at UW in 2023 with a focus on documentation practices for language datasets. Her academic interests include natural language processing (primarily in Python), Indigenous language vitalization, and the interactions between language, technology, and society. She also partnered with the Tech Policy Lab on the update of Data Statements.

You can read the transcript of the full Conversations interview here.