Data & Society affiliate Kate Crawford comments on a court case in which a law firm is using data from a plaintiff's Fitbit in support of her personal injury claim and explores the implications of elective self-tracking tec... Read on The Atlantic

Self driving cars are no longer in our distant future, they're here and they're becoming more independent however, D&S fellow Anthony Townsend and NYU colleague, Greg Lindsay argue that this approach is "looking at the wron... Read on Quartz

In 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 Atlantic

In this essay, Data & Society advisor Ethan Zuckerman explains his belief that the "fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online cont... Read on The Atlantic

In this essay Data & Society affiliate Kate Crawford asks, “What does the lived reality of Big Data feel like?” She offers "surveillant anxiety — the fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our ... Read on The New Inquiry