An interview with Sareeta Amrute on her book "Encoding Race, Encoding Class." Read on CaMP Anthropology

Data & Society Researcher Alexandra Mateescu maps out the inequalities and power dynamics  within the gig economy. "As on-demand companies like Handy and online marketplaces like Care.com enter the space of domestic work, ... Read on Points

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D&S founder danah boyd discusses machine learning algorithms and prejudice, digital white flight on social media, trust in the media, and more on The Ezra Klein Show. "Technology is made by people in a society, and it has ... Read on The Ezra Klein Show

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler describes the intersection of automated technologies, trade secrets, and the criminal justice system. For-profit companies dominate the criminal justice technologies industry and prod... Read on WNYC The Takeaway

Data & Society Fellow Ravi Shroff studies the development and implementation of predictive models for decision making in city and state government. This talk covers Shroff’s research on improving decision making within poli... Read more

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler unpacks how private companies hide flaws in software that the government uses to convict and exonerate people in the criminal justice system. What’s alarming about protecting trade se... Read on Washington Monthly

D&S resident Rebecca Wexler describes the flaws of an increasingly automated criminal justice system The root of the problem is that automated criminal justice technologies are largely privately owned and sold for profit... Read on The New York Times

Rebecca Wexler discusses the automation of the criminal justice system in America and the ownership of new technologies used by law enforcement. Automation is currently driving privatization. Wexler explains that “new criminal ... Read more

D&S affiliate Wilneida Negrón details the role of bots and automation in activism today. As everyone from advertisers to political adversaries jockey for attention, they are increasingly using automated technologies and pr... Read on Ford Foundation blog