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 Mark Latonero provides an overview of the role of large tech companies in refugee crises. While the 40-page brief is filled with arguments in support of immigration, it hardly speaks about refugees, except t... Read on Harvard Business Review

"Anita Say Chan’s work, Networking Peripheries, situates the idea of digital futures, and how these are being imagined in the so-called periphery." Read on Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Jongbin Jung, Connor Concannon, D&S fellow Ravi Shroff, Sharad Goel, and Daniel G. Goldstein explore new methods for machine learning in criminal justice. Simple rules certainly have their advantages, but one might reasona... Read on Harvard Business Review

This piece is adapted, with permission, from “Data, Algorithms, Fairness, Accountability,” danah boyd’s talk at the October 28, 2016, meeting of the U.S Department of Commerce Data Advisory Council. Read on Points

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, and Surya Mattu complete the Black Box series with an analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri that shows that some major insurers charge minority ... Read on ProPublica

Sharad Goel, Maya Perelman, D&S fellow Ravi Shroff, and David Alan Sklansky examine a method that can "reduce the racially disparate impact of pedestrian searches and to increase their effectiveness". Abstract is below: Th... Read on SSRN

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

D&S advisor Anil Dash discusses how interviews can exclude people from the tech  industry. When we mimic patterns from tech culture without knowing why we do them, we often take good ideas and turn them into terrible barri... Read on Medium

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler analyzes the unreliability of video authenticating in Slate. When forensic scientists refuse to reveal details about how their experimental methods work, they erode trust in the ideal... Read on Slate