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Data & SocietyIn this talk, Data & Society Fellow Mutale Nkonde discusses governance in the age of AI. Read moreJune 2019 -
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Data & SocietyIn her talk, Data & Society Fellow Chancey Fleet describes “the state of non-visual access to everyday digital interactions." Read moreJune 2019 -
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DatabitesData & Society Fellow Jeanna Matthews speaks about algorithmic accountability and transparency within the context of the criminal justice system. Important decisions in our society are being made evermore frequently by o... Read moreJune 2018 -
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DatabitesMatthew Jones speaks about key illiteracies surrounding metadata, the hacking of our court system, and the possibility of ethics at scale. He touches upon the variations in definitions of key terminol... Read moreJune 2018 -
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DatabitesIn this lightning talk, Rishab Nithyanand provides an overview of three tussles that have become increasingly important over the last few years: privacy versus accountability; free speech versus civility; and anonymity versus a... Read moreJune 2018 -
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DatabitesFirst amendment legal scholar Claudia Haupt discusses speech protection versus speech regulation and how these issues are approached in various countries around the world. This talk visits and describes different sets of... Read moreJune 2018 -
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DatabitesIn Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination... Read moreMay 2018 -
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DatabitesK. Sabeel Rahman discusses the prospects for remedying private platform power in the 21st century. The informational, economic, and political influence of the dominant tech platforms — Google, Faceboo... Read moreDecember 2017 -
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DatabitesAnne Washington talks about the risks of efficiency and optimization, and the need for a common language when speaking about data science and public policy. It is often difficult for technology experts to have conversations wit... Read moreJune 2017 -
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DatabitesData & Society Fellow Ravi Shroff studies the development and implementation of predictive models for decision making in city and state government. This talk covers Shroff’s research on improving decision making within poli... Read moreJune 2017