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DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL
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PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE

20 years of award-winning research, teaching, and advocacy on privacy, surveillance, and the fight for everyone's post-digital dignity.


(Including "impossible" inroads and coalitions across the digital, religious, and cultural divide.)

SPEAKING + CONSULTING + TRAININGS

THANK YOU TO MY ALLIES, CLIENTS, AND STUDENTS

Because the privacy crisis is scaring the hell out of all of them.  #privacy4allperiod

NEWS AND UPDATES

Yup, yelling about Flock

Give customers a reason to do business with you.

"How To Protect Your Personal Info on Facebook.”

NBC KARE-11.  Minneapolis, MN:  March 21,  2018. 

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THE STORIES + QUICK RECEIPTS

CHAPTER 7: PRIVACY
DECEMBER 2021-DECEMBER 2022


It started when my medical data was hacked in a targeted job ad to be the chief privacy technologist for a world-famous privacy org...

SPEAKING EVENTS

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

 BIG WINS

  • Strategic Partner on Minneapolis’s historic, bipartisan facial recognition ban; Unicorn pro-life/pro-choice coalition on reproductive surveillance + medical data privacy; city council testimony; Intellectual pivot of privacy to “Cancel Culture”/Social Forgiveness (NBC KARE-11).
  • Awards/Pubs: Intl Vincentian Business Ethics (Runner-Up Best Paper); Georgetown Law; Competition Pol Intl; Ohio State Dissertation on post-digital privacy/law (How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Post-Digital Age).
  • Teaching privacy and surveillance methods to citizens and professionals via local and international art/education/civic events (Digital Rights are Civil Rights)
  • Trainings/Events: Plugged In: Surveillance and Tech (ACLU MN + Lawmakers).


 

Nerd Stuff: Gemini's Synopsis of my R and D

Assessing data collection, via ethos and post-digital character judgments, in the context of healthcare, policing, reproductive data, education, “cancel culture,” American politics, and employment (Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity, reported in Forbes; Law and Ethics of Big Data]; The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in Late Neoliberal Times [Lexington Press]

  • Rather than litigating "Data Silos," the IDH OS treats privacy as a Narrative Sanctity issue. We utilize 2,000 years of rhetorical theory (and 120 of privacy law) to assess data collection via Ethos and Post-Digital Character Judgments. 
  • The OS provides a socio-technical logic-gate to protect high-entropy data (e.g., Reproductive Surveillance) where 20th-century legal doctrine and Silicon Valley "Terms of Service" fail.


EDUCATION: TEACHABLE K-CEO

 Teaching students how to score policy, cultural, and research wins  with "both sides" to protect their privacy and digital dignity.

Field-tested in the classroom and real world

from the news to international art exhibitions

 and unnicorn think tanks
for 20 years.

trainings and workshops

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & SCALING

PLATFORMS + ART + CIVIC FORUMS + BIPARTISAN COALITIONS + PR


Able to unite divided Americans.

"Impossible" privacy inroads and coalitions across the digital, religious, and cultural divide.

It turns out you can even get pro-life and pro-choice folks to agree on a fundamental right to privacy 

and digital dignity.

SPEAKING EVENTS

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TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

Schools | Companies

Governments | Communities

SPEAKING

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Attorneys | Policy Makers

Teachers | Administrators

Students | Programmers

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THERE ISN'T TIME FOR THIS TO BE YOUR FIRST RODEO.

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