Diana Initiative 2022-Kaileigh McCrea-You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Building Technical Solutions
Channel: The Diana Initiative
Date: 28/12/2022

Diana Initiative 2022
Las Vegas, NV USA

You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Building Technical Solutions to Ethical Problems

Last year I started working as a privacy engineer for a cybersecurity start up as it began building a privacy compliance product for the ad tech industry. I found myself navigating some complex ethical and legal tensions and trying to translate them into efficient business processing rules and control flows, with a compass that was constantly evolving. Our North Star has been that the further we stray from the consensus the less credibility we have as enforcers but where does that leave you when you’re building ahead of consensus or the consensus left out some major stakeholders? How do you protect consumer privacy while allowing your clients to keep operating effectively? How do you surface and attribute violations when there is no clear bad guy or your client may be the one at fault? And how do you distill laws and regulations into business processing rules and control flow logic?

Kaileigh McCrea

Software Engineer
Washington, DC
Websitehttps://kaileighcodes.com

Kaileigh is a Privacy Engineer at Confiant, where she researches violations of privacy regulations and user rights in ad tech and builds tools to detect them, and consumes huge amounts of cookies. Before joining Confiant she was a software engineer at Swing Left and Vote Forward where she helped volunteers send over 18 million GOTV letters in the 2020 General Election. Her background includes software engineering, comedy writing, and politics, and when she's not working, she is usually reading excessive amounts and hanging out with her dog.