Yeshimabeit Milner, founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives presents "Abolish Big Data." Read more

Senior Researcher Mark Latonero reflects on the limitations of Facebook's new "Oversight Board." Read on Harvard Business Review

Data are currency. Data provide the fuel for decision-making and profit-making. Data offer evidence for enhancing health services, infrastructure, and zoning, and for addressing environmental concerns. But the collection and us... Read more

Manny Moss and Jake Metcalf examine the tensions arising in new ethics initiatives at tech companies. Read on Harvard Business Review

Data & Society Researchers Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, and Founder and President danah boyd investigate the tensions that arise when adapting ethics initiatives at Silicon Valley tech companies. "By talking with people ... Read more

AI is projected to spur immense growth in our economy across 19 sectors, including targeted advertising, which raises data-mining and digital privacy concerns. In this talk, Data & Society Fellow Mutale Nkonde discusses ... Read more

In her talk, Data & Society Fellow Chancey Fleet describes “the state of non-visual access to everyday digital interactions” as an area which deeply needs and deserves more attention and exploration by those working in tech... Read more

How can we do less harm to communities of color with the technology we create? In their new paper Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech, Data & Society 2018-19 Fellows Jessie Daniels and Mutale Nkonde and 2017-18 Fellow Dara... Read more

In this article, Research Lead Madeleine Clare Elish investigates who bears the responsibility when an automated system fails. "Just as the crumple zone in a car is designed to absorb the force of impact in a crash, the human ... Read on Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

The Algorithmic Accountability Act is a great first step, and regulators who are tasked with implementing it should take sociotechnical frames into account. "A sociological lens can help illuminate appropriate points of inst... Read on Points