Hannah Quay-de la Vallee is a Senior Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology. While she brings her technical expertise to bear across CDT’s projects, she is primarily focused on the Equity in Civic Technology Project, dedicated to ensuring that education agencies and other civic institutions use data and technology responsibly while protecting the privacy and civil rights of individuals. Hannah received her PhD in computer science from Brown University in 2017. For her dissertation, she designed and built tools that help users better manage privacy on their mobile devices.
CDT Submits Comments Urging Careful Approach for Expansion of Do Not Pay System
CDT urges agencies to protect the personal data with which they have been entrusted by applying robust data minimization practices, enacting strong security protocols, limiting redisclosure, and mitigating data quality issues.
What is a Database? A Technical Guide to the Personal and Institutional Considerations of Government Data Consolidation
Data consolidation must be rigorously assessed to ensure that appropriate protections are in place, the data sharing is in service of the agencies’ missions, and there are frameworks and processes in place to ensure the data is not repurposed in ways that harm the people the agencies are meant to serve.
