History of MyPrivacyPolls

2025 - MyPrivacyPolls.com

The Public Interest Tech Lab launches MyPrivacyPolls, Gray level, as a privacy-first survey platform that enables individuals to submit anonymous responses—without tracking or data retention—making it ideal for whistleblowing, incident reporting, and secure, trustless data collection. Team members include (in alphabetical order): Pascal Delpe-Brice, Emine Dogan, Mamoun Janfor, Eli Munn, Joshua Shank, and Latanya Sweeney.

2024 - Mark MacGann

Mark MacGann, becomes a Knight Fellow in the Public Interest Tech Lab. Widely known as the Uber Whistleblower and a former big tech executive, MacGann focuses on advancing whistleblowing processes and technologies to ensure that the public gains greater insight from the critical information shared by insiders.

2023 FBarchive: the Leaked Facebook Files

The Public Interest Tech Lab launches FBarchive.org as a public, searchable online repository of nearly 1,000 internal Meta documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen, offering firsthand insight into the company's content moderation failures and platform risks.

2019 - Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act

The 2019 Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act requires U.S. federal agencies to modernize data governance, promote open data, and use data and evidence to inform policy decisions, enhancing transparency, accountability, and data-driven government operations. This law included graduated privacy levels for data sharing based on the 2015 DataTags paper cited below.

2015 - DataTags Paper

“Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The Datatags System” by Latanya Sweeney, Merce Crosas, and Michael Bar-Sinai. Technology Science. 2015101601. October 15, 2015. techscience.org/a/2015101601/.

This paper introduces datatags as a simplified framework for managing access and security requirements for sensitive data, reducing the complexity of thousands of data-sharing regulations into a small set of standardized tags, with demonstrated applications in medical, educational, research, and corporate contexts.