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Data & SocietyA Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities Read moreSeptember 2020 -
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Data & SocietyTechnology enables employers to increasingly monitor their employees. This explainer by Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen identifies four current trends in workplace monitoring and surveillance: prediction and flagging tools; biometrics and health data; remote monitoring and time-tracking; and gamification and algorithmic management. Read moreFebruary 2019 -
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Center for Information Policy ResearchThis report by Data & Society Researcher Bonnie Tijerina and Michael Zimmer is the culmination of gatherings that brought together different privacy practitioners to discuss digital privacy for libraries. "While the recent... Read on Center for Information Policy ResearchJuly 2018 -
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Data & SocietyD&S researcher Monica Bulger, with Patrick McCormick and D&S research analyst Mikaela Pitcan, writes this working paper detailing the "Legacy of inBloom". Although inBloom closed in 2014, it ignited a public discussion... Read moreFebruary 2017 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores current and potential interactivity between librarians and computer science researchers at different phases of the research process as they come across questions of privacy, potential harms, and security in data storage. Read moreAugust 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThe Digital Privacy & Data Literacy project's first learning modules are now available online! These first modules teach the history and evolving role of the library in ensuring patron privacy and the basics of how infor... Read moreFebruary 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer offers an overview of what is currently known about body-worn cameras, and highlights the unanswered questions about how body-worn camera programs may impact civil rights and civil liberties. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the growing use of social media as a law enforcement tool for surveillance, as well as how social media surveillance affects First and Fourth Amendment rights. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores unjust bias in the criminal justice system, and explains how, without the right safeguards, there is a real risk that new technologies could become instruments of injustice. Read moreOctober 2015