Carol V. Rose is the executive director of the

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of Massachusetts. In 2013 Rose launched the

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''Technology for Liberty'' strategy which looked at the

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implications of technology. She is on the board of directors of the

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, a coalition of technology companies including

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, and

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Early life and education

Rose completed her bachelor's degree at

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in 1983. She earned an Master's at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1985. Rose started her career in the late 1980s as an editorial writer for

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, a small daily newspaper in Iowa. While there she co-hosted a

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presidential candidate debate. Some of her human interest stories were picked up by

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. She received a fellowship from the

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, a family foundation which give grants to young people to study around the world. Rose used the grant to backpack thru Europe and Asia, and write for the foundation's newsletter from 1990 to 1992. She returned to the United States to earn her

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from

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in 1996. Rose was a clerk for

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Career

Rose worked as an attorney at

Hill and Barlow Hill & Barlow was a law firm in Boston, Massachusetts that was dissolved in 2002. Founded in 1895, the firm had been one of the city's oldest and most elite firms, and was also the 12th largest in Boston at the time of its dissolution, employing ...

, a Boston law firm specializing in emerging companies, real estate, and media and entertainment. Rose was employed as a starting associate from mid-1997 until 2002 when the firm dissolved. She served as co-chair of the Women in Communications Law for the

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Forum. Rose was hired a year later by the

in Massachusetts in 2003. She has focused on racial justice and equal opportunity for all, demanding equality for women, LGBTQ+ and immigrant people. Rose launched ''Technology for Liberty'' and ''Justice for All'' programs in 2013. ''Technology for Liberty'' enforces governmental transparency and reins the deployment of surveillance technology. It has strengthened the warrant requirements of government agencies looking to access digital information. It has challenged the government's use of the

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against technology. The

has seen a surge in donations since the election of

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. After the

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called for the ACLU to reunite children separated from their children, Rose told Boston public radio that "The government’s unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis and they need to clean it up". Rose spoke at the 2014

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Conference on

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, discussing public privacy. She attended the 2016 Forum on Data Privacy at the

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Internet Policy Research Initiative. On

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

privacy, Rose has warned that "invariably, abuse will happen; invariably, people will find out about it". She is a contributor to

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, a local public radio affiliate.

References

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