Data & Society Data & Human Rights Research Lead Mark Latonero and Zachary Gold look at the history of web crawlers usage and legal issues surrounding that usage. "This paper discusses the history of web crawlers in co... Read on Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

Data & Human Rights Research Lead Mark Latonero investigates the impact of digitally networked technologies on the safe passage of refugees and migrants. "...in making their way to safe spaces, refugees rely not only on a ... Read on Social Media + Society

How do young people of low socio-economic status (SES) view online privacy? D&S fellow Alice Marwick, researcher Claire Fontaine, and president and founder danah boyd examine this question in their study. " Framing online ... Read on Sage Journals

D&S researcher Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, D&S affiliate Karen Levy, and D&S fellow Alice Marwick examine how poor Americans are impacted by privacy violations and discuss how to protect digital privacy for the vul... Read on Washington University Law Review

Ryan Calo and D&S researcher Alex Rosenblat write this analysis of the newly termed 'taking economy' of Uber. Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on digital platf... Read on Columbia Law Review

D&S advisor Deirdre Mulligan, with co-authors Colin Koopman and Nick Doty, released "Privacy is an essentially contested concept: a multi-dimensional analytic for mapping privacy". The meaning of privacy has been much disp... Read on Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

Introduction: Low-income communities have historically been subject to a wide range of governmental monitoring and related privacy intrusions in daily life. The privacy harms poor communities and their residents suffer as a re... Read on Washington University Law Review

D&S affiliates Ifeoma Ajunwa and Kate Crawford, with Joel Ford, co-wrote this piece discussing how big data is used in wellness programs instituted by large corporations and how that can impact workers' privacy and can spark em... Read on Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

D&S researcher Bonnie Tijerina offers an overview of the work undertaken by the Supporting Ethics in Data Research project. Complex data sets raise challenging ethical questions about risk to individuals who are not sufficie... Read on EDUCAUSE review

Researchers Alexandra Mateescu and Alex Rosenblat published a paper with D&S Founder danah boyd examine police-worn body cameras and their potential to provide avenues for police accountability and foster improved policy-co... Read on Surveillance & Society