“Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a century. The rise of the Internet has made this problem more urgent.”
How do new technologies and big data affect our ways of life, thinking and consuming the city in the city?
The 2015 Data & Civil Rights conference focused on how new technologies are reconfiguring policing and criminal justice.
Data visualization has become the visual currency for data driven advocacy, yet little is known about the ethics and responsibilities of dataviz techniques, policies, and practices in analysis, advocacy, research, and design.
Data & Society invites you to celebrate the publication of “The Social Life of DNA” by Alondra Nelson.
How advertising became welded into the business model of the Web — and all the effects that that produces in the Internet we have today…
On February 19, the International Data Responsibility Group will host the second International Data Responsibility Conference…
Exploring the assumptions, values, and tensions at the core of growing concerns about the shaping of the public sphere…
NYC’s civic technology & open data conference.
A round table took place on April 7, 2016 at Data & Society Research Institute. Eighteen researchers, educators, consultants, and journalists joined to engage in conversation about the state of education, the influence of technology in the education space, and the value sets driving efforts of educators, legislators, and policy makers. A summary of the […]