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video
Data & SocietyIn this Databite, Beth Bechky turns her lens of organizational ethnography on the workers handling DNA evidence in a crime lab. She examines how doing science in the service of justice is influenced by advances in data and tech... Read moreFebruary 2016 -
Longform
The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer explores the differences in how the United States and Europe treat data protection and privacy. In the United States, a variety of laws apply to specific sectors, like health and credit. In the Eu... Read on The New York TimesJanuary 2016 -
video
Data & SocietyAttorney and Internet Law & Policy Foundry fellow Amanda Levendowski discusses how to craft effective online harassment and abuse reporting policies (HARP). She discusses the online harassment taxonomy and platform permeabi... Read moreDecember 2015 -
op-ed
Fusion"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 FusionNovember 2015 -
Resource
Data & SocietyThis primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read moreOctober 2015 -
blog post
Ethical ResolveIn this blogpost for Ethical Resolve, researcher Jacob Metcalf discusses A/B testing and research ethics and argues that: ...data scientists need to earn the social trust that is the foundation of ethical research in any field... Read on Ethical ResolveAugust 2015 -
video
Data & SocietyThe public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read moreJuly 2015 -
op-ed
Quartz"In a self-driving car, the control of the vehicle is shared between the driver and the car’s software. How the software behaves is in turn controlled — designed — by the software engineers. It’s no longer true to say that the ... Read on QuartzJuly 2015 -
Resource
Data & SocietyIn the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, as well as the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country, there has been a call to mandate the use of body-worn cameras to promote accou... Read moreFebruary 2015 -
podcast
Radio NZ"Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC [and a D&S fellow]. She discusses the automated systems, known as algorithms, that are replacing human discretion more and mor... Read on Radio NZFebruary 2015