"Uber’s access to real-time information about where passengers and drivers are has helped make it one of the most efficient and useful apps produced by Silicon Valley in recent years. But if you open the app assuming you’ll get... Read on Motherboard

"Increasingly, what underlies the debate over the so-called sharing economy is a nascent, bigger battle about how society wants machines coordinating and governing human activity. These apps don't match and route people by hand... Read on Slate

"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 Quartz

In this op-ed, Data & Society founder danah boyd argues that youth are addicted to interacting with their peers, not to screens. "If Americans truly want to reduce the amount young people use technology," she writes, "we sh... Read on New York Times

In this piece for Civic Hall's Civicist, Samuel Woolley and D&S fellow Tim Hwang argue that "[t]he failure of the ‘good bot’ is a failure of design, not a failure of automation" and urge us not to dismiss the potential bene... Read on Civicist

"But as history tells us, camera evidence does not an indictment make." D&S advisor, Janet Vertesi discusses the difficulty with visual evidence in criminal indictments and the power of visual suggestibility. Offering ev... Read on TIME

One week D&S affiliate Elana Zeide is described by the new app Crystal as "a quick learner with strong analytical, creative, and social skills, but may seem scatter-brained, forgetful, and/or sarcastic” and the next week as... Read on Slate

Today, press ethics are intertwined with platform design ethics, and press freedom is shared with software designers. The people at Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and elsewhere have a new and significant role in how news c... Read on Nieman Lab

In this op-ed, Data & Society fellow Seeta Peña Gangadharan argues that privacy-as-default features "help restore public trust in technology as a tool to improve our lives and collectively self-govern." "When technologies c... Read on New York Times

In this op-ed, Data & Society advisor Janet Vertesi highlights a systemic tension in our current understanding of data privacy: "We are all supposed to be solely responsible for our personal information, but at the same tim... Read on TIME