This primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read more

This primer investigates the growing use of social media as a law enforcement tool for surveillance, as well as how social media surveillance affects First and Fourth Amendment rights. Read more

This primer explores unjust bias in the criminal justice system, and explains how, without the right safeguards, there is a real risk that new technologies could become instruments of injustice. Read more

This primer investigates the increasing use of biometric technologies in policing, and the civil liberties and civil rights concerns that need to be raised alongside these technological advances. Read more

Predictive policing refers to the use of analytical techniques to make statistical predictions about potential criminal activity. The basic underlying assumption of predictive policing is that crime is not randomly distributed ... Read more

Science fiction author Scott Westerfeld (Uglies series, Leviathan series) leads the discussion at this Databite, examining the rise of dystopia as a dominant genre in young adult novels. Read more

Incoming D&S fellow Natasha Singer reports for the New York Times on the glut of recently proposed legislation aimed at restricting the collection and use of student data. Read on The New York Times

In collaboration with New America, the Brooklyn Public Library, Research Action Design, and the Metropolitan New York Library Council, Data & Society launched The Data Privacy Project to equip library staff with the skills ... Read on Data & Society

How the Internet is Shaping Social Change, and Social Change is Shaping the Internet Summary As activism for police accountability, fair wages, just immigration, and more takes center stage — social justice movements of the... Read more

D&S advisor Janet Vertesi essays her presentation from Theorizing the Web 2014: The past five years have seen the rise and expansion of a new infrastructural layer to the Internet. Inspired by the unprecedented success of ... Read on Interface