{"id":5086,"date":"2026-04-07T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/?page_id=5086"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:40:56","slug":"life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/education\/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This day-long event at Georgetown Law Center on October 6, 2026, will be a space for provocations on the theme of\u00a0 \u201cde-datafication.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The term \u201cdatafication\u201d refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, which is rendered as a new form of economic value.* The conference theme of \u201cde-datafication\u201d is meant to be open ended, but the prompt is:<\/p>\n<p><em>Imagine a future in which digital data is no longer the currency mediating all of our social, economic and political systems, structures and practices. How might we get there from here?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conference is open to the public, and presentations will be recorded but not live-streamed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/education\/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication\/life-after-data-program\/\">View the conference program here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/education\/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication\/life-after-data-speaker-bios\/\"><strong>View speaker bios here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScQ6lNJwcFxE3AiBLgaUbkfv8XwdpI2ywqWA4K3AmFT1qujHg\/viewform?usp=publish-editor\">Click here to register<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Cukier, Kenneth; Mayer-Sch\u00f6nberger, Viktor (2013). \u201cThe Rise of Big Data.\u201d Foreign Affairs. 92(35); Mejias, Ulisses (2019). \u201cDatafication.\u201d Internet Policy Review 8(4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day-long event at Georgetown Law Center on October 6, 2026, will be a space for provocations on the theme of\u00a0 \u201cde-datafication.\u201d\u00a0 The term \u201cdatafication\u201d refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, which is rendered as a new form of economic value.* The conference theme of \u201cde-datafication\u201d is meant to be open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15769,"featured_media":0,"parent":40,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5086\/revisions\/5544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}