D&S Advisor Ethan Zuckerman pushes back against a new myth developing around Bitcoin as a ready-made solution to complex humanitarian and international development problems around the globe: Is Bitcoin really the best way ... Read on The Atlantic

D&S Researcher Alex Rosenblat examines how Uber’s app design and deployment redistributes management functions to semiautomated and algorithmic systems, as well as to consumer ratings systems, creating ambiguity around who ... Read on Harvard Business Review

D&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on the public sphere in the era of social medi... Read on Slate

D&S Advisor Joel Reidenberg considers the scope of the court order compelling Apple to provide "reasonable technical assistance" to help the government hack into one of the San Bernadino attacker's locked iPhone. In sh... Read on New York Times

D&S Advisor Ethan Zuckerman contemplates the sustainability of advertising on the internet in 2016 and why advertisers continue to go through all the trouble to track a user across their devices: The simple truth is that w... Read on The Guardian

In this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan addresses the question "Can Crime Be Ethically Predicted?" and argues that bias is inherent in the technical systems used in predictive policing leading to "fundam... Read on New York Times

In this op-ed, D&S advisor Deirdre Mulligan argues: Whether it's Britain or the US insisting that tech companies develop a mechanism to give police or spy agencies access to encrypted communications, backdoors put ever... Read on Christian Science Monitor

"In order to best understand the new technologies in our lives, it may be more useful to look to stage magicians than to source code." D&S researcher Tim Hwang discusses recent technological deceptions carried out by dev... Read on Fusion

D&S researcher Alex Rosenblat published an essay on remote management in Pacific Standard’s The Future of Work and Workers series: Rather than having managers who listen to them and deliver feedback, drivers are managed th... Read on Pacific Standard

D&S fellow Tim Hwang distinguishes between offline boycotts and online refusals to link in the context of the advertising-driven Internet. What moral principles and norms are implicated when individuals choose not to link o... Read on The Atlantic