I’m a technologist, digital researcher, and artist thinking about privacy and computational systems. I recently wrapped up my time as a 2017-2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow hosted at Human Rights Watch.
My work interrogates the ways social platforms collect and monetize data about their users using automated or opaque computational processes. I also explore the ways privacy by design is applied to a rapidly shifting IoT landscape.
With a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), my graduate research culminated in a thesis defense presentation and a blog where you can read about my creative work.
Before graduate school, I worked on creative applications of voice recognition at a tech company, contributed to independent media projects, and studied Arabic and MENA politics. I hold a B.A. in Middle East Studies/Arabic.
Contact me:
baricks at protonmail.com
baricks at protonmail.com