D&S post-doctoral scholar Julia Ticona responds to “Gig Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing” from Pew Research Center. "Contingent work has always been prevalent in communities where workers have been historically excl... Read on Points

Predictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data?   Machine learning algorithms ar... Read more

D&S affiliate Sorelle Friedler, with Nicholas Diakopoulos, discuss five principles to hold algorithmic systems accountable. Recent investigations show that risk assessment algorithms can be racially biased, generating scor... Read on MIT Technology Review

D&S founder danah boyd spoke at the Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency in the Digital Economy panel at the EU Parliament. Read on ALDE Group

D&S fellow Anne L. Washington published a Points piece responding to Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction. "Complex models with high stakes require rigorous periodic taste tests. Unfortunately most organizations us... Read on Points

D&S fellow Ravi Shroff examines Cathy O'Neil's analysis of criminal justice algorithms, like predictive policing. "There are a few minor mischaracterizations and omissions in this chapter of Weapons of Math Destruction t... Read on Points

D&S fellow Mark Ackerman develops a checklist to address the sociotechnical issues demonstrated in Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction. "These checklist items for socio-technical design are all important for polic... Read on Points

D&S affiliate Angèle Christin writes a response piece to Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction. "One of the most striking findings of my research so far is that there is often a major gap between what the top admini... Read on Points

D&S researcher Josh Scannell responds to Georgetown Center on Privacy & Technology's "The Perpetual Line-Up" study. "Reports like 'The Perpetual Line-Up' force a fundamental question: What do we want technologies lik... Read on Points

D&S researcher Claire Fontaine looks at how school performance data can lead to segregation. In our technocratic society, we are predisposed toward privileging the quantitative. So, we need to find ways to highlight what i... Read on Connected Learning Alliance