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Logic MagazineHackers helped invent the field of computer security. Their ideas can help us revamp it for a new era. Read on Logic MagazineMay 2020 -
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Harvard Business ReviewD&S researcher Mark Latonero provides an overview of the role of large tech companies in refugee crises. While the 40-page brief is filled with arguments in support of immigration, it hardly speaks about refugees, except t... Read on Harvard Business ReviewMay 2017 -
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MotherboardD&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington speculates whether or not possible threats to internet infrastructure are in fact threats. To take out some of the major chokepoints of the internet wouldn't be impossible, and it ... Read on MotherboardJuly 2016 -
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Vice“Just as the software and hardware of the internet has been militarized by the imperatives of a mostly secret 'cyberwar,' so too are online social spaces being weaponized in new and mostly hidden ways.” D&S researcher Tim Hw... Read on ViceSeptember 2015 -
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The New York TimesIncoming D&S fellow Natasha Singer reports for the New York Times on the glut of recently proposed legislation aimed at restricting the collection and use of student data. Read on The New York TimesAugust 2015 -
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The NationD&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrtington writes about the history of the term "predictive policing", the pressures on police forces that are driving them to embrace data-driven policing, and the many valid causes for conc... Read on The NationMay 2015 -
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The AtlanticIn this piece, Data & Society fellow Karen Levy criticizes the oversimplifications of technological tools that attempt to "solve" rape. "It’s encouraging to see techies trying to address knotty social issues like sexual vio... Read on The AtlanticOctober 2014