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The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Ignacio Cofone has won the 鈥檚 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award for his paper Antidiscriminatory Privacy.

The Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) Award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the United States Congress, U.S. federal agencies, and data protection authorities around the world. The PPPM Award鈥檚 judges selected Professor Cofone鈥檚 work as one of five papers they recommend to policymakers as the 鈥渕ust-read鈥� privacy scholarship of the year.

As part of the award, Professor Cofone will attend the tenth Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event, held in Washington, DC in February 2020, where he will discuss his work at the United States Senate with policymakers, academics, and privacy professionals.

Professor Cofone joined 捆绑SM社区's Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in 2018, where he teaches Privacy Law, Artificial Intelligence Law, and Business Associations. His research explores how the law should adapt to technological and social change, with a particular focus on privacy and algorithmic decision-making. In his latest projects, he proposes how to evaluate harm in privacy class actions and how to prevent algorithmic discrimination.

鈥淲e are thrilled to see Professor Cofone鈥檚 research be recognized in this way,鈥� Dean Robert Leckey said. 鈥淎s this award evidences, his work has the capacity to shape the future of policy 鈥� we鈥檙e proud to count him amongst the Faculty鈥檚 world-class researchers.鈥�