Lectures on Tap - "Your Body, Their Data: The Ethics of Storing You"

Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar!

Hosted by the Lectures on Tap team.

🗓️ Date: July 9th, 2025

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Williamsburg Brooklyn (exact address provided in confirmation email)

📚 Lecture: “Your Body, Their Data: The Ethics of Storing You”

🎤 Speaker: Professor Melissa Chodziutko

Biometrics are all around us; we unlock our phones with a glance or a fingerprint countless times a day. But how deep does this technology really go? Join Professor Melissa Chodziutko for an eye-opening discussion on the intricacies of biometric technology, which now encompasses everything from voice recognition to DNA matching, and how it has become increasingly embedded in our daily lives.

As biometrics become more complex, they also store more of our unalterable data. This raises essential questions: Are these technologies truly necessary? How do they function, and who is responsible for storing this deeply personal information? Most importantly, should we allow this level of data collection?

As biometric tech advances, join us in exploring whether we are enhancing security or giving away too much of ourselves.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the pressing ethical issues surrounding biometric data!

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.