Email:

lcallowa@iu.edu

Laura Calloway is a Security Informatics PhD student concentrating on identifying the best practices for preserving consumer privacy for users of internet connected health and home devices. She uses a harm reduction approach to consumer privacy focused on prioritizing the most minoritized users since technological and health risks are not distributed homogeneously, but are experienced unequally based on users’ identities (as a result of their race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or any combination thereof).  Her research is grounded in both Computer Security and Public Health methodologies and is centered around the question of, “when is it appropriate to use technology as part of a health intervention for people dealing with chronic or infectious diseases and how can this be done in a privacy preserving way?”  Prior to IU, she earned a BA in both Sociology and English from Williams College and a MS in Public Policy and Management while a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow at Carnegie Mellon (Heinz College).