Harvardâs Undergraduate Council launched a weeklong campaign last month to support a project aimed at explaining how the University collects and uses student data.
The campaign â dubbed the Transparency Project â started as a final project created by Yousuf Bakshi â23 and Anjali Chakradhar â23 in the class Computer Science 105: âPrivacy and Technology,â taught by Computer Science professor James âJimâ H. Waldo. Bakshi and Chakradhar are Council members who represent Mather House and Cabot House, respectively.
The project â a collaboration with newly formed club Harvard Undergraduate Initiative for Technology and Society â aimed to bolster student awareness about data privacy, Chakradhar said.
âWe want to help build the next generation of data-aware citizens who can then go on to advocate for themselves and other people,â Chakradhar said. âWe thought that the best place to start was right here.â