Predictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data?   Machine learning algorithms ar... Read more

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

Sonia Livingstone presents her book, The Class – Living and Learning in the Digital Age.     Where and why do digital media – and digital media learning – fit into the lives of young teenagers living in c... Read more

D&S practitioner-in-residence Mark Van Hollebeke discusses Weapons of Math Destruction in this Points piece. "O’Neil’s analysis doesn’t just apply to mathematical models; it applies to societal models. Most of the WMDs t... Read on Points

D&S researcher Amanda Lenhart participates in the Relationships and Privacy in a World of Tinder and Twitter panel at Kids Online. Read on College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

D&S researcher Bonnie Tijerina discusses the development of a "hands-on professional training program on data and privacy literacy in hopes of showing how this knowledge can positively impact their service to library patrons." Read on UpNext blog

D&S researcher Mary Madden reviews and adds her perspective to the play Privacy. "As someone who has experienced the glaze of overwhelm in the eyes of my family and friends when I try to explain why privacy still matters, ... Read on Points

D&S fellow Zara Rahman reports that the Bangladeshi government developed "smart" national ID cards. But with this much personal information being collected on every single citizen, especially personal data that cannot be c... Read on The Guardian

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 affiliate Karen Levy is interviewed about her scholarly work. Read on CornellCIS