D&S affiliate Natasha Singer reports that Apple has developed a free coding app for middle-school students, yet it may not be as accessible as advertised. The Apple coding app is free, but it requires an iPad, the company’... Read on The Boston Globe

D&S researcher Josh Scannell wrote an extensive analysis of predictive policing algorithms, showing that, while they were not built to be racist, they mirror a racist system. Northpointe’s algorithms will always be racist,... Read on Real Life Magazine

D&S fellow Surya Mattu investigated bias in risk assessments, algorithmically generated scores predicting the likelihood of a person committing a future crime. These scores are increasingly used in courtrooms across America... Read on ProPublica

D&S Fellow Natasha Singer looks into exploitative interactive website design techniques known as “dark patterns". Persuasive design is a longstanding practice, not just in marketing but in health care and philanthropy. Cou... Read on The New York Times

If we measure infrastructure in terms of ROI, of course it doesn't make sense to build out fiber to the home in Point Arena. By that measure, it also doesn't really make sense to build bridges. Or roads. Or aqueducts. Public go... Read on The Atlantic

D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman gives a speech on the MIT Media Lab's 30th anniversary praising the numerous innovations that have come from the lab but puts forth the important question of whether or not innovators can build p... Read on The Conversation

D&S artist in residence Ingrid Burrtington writes about the history of the term "predictive policing", the pressures on police forces that are driving them to embrace data-driven policing, and the many valid causes for conc... Read on The Nation

D&S fellow Gideon Lichfield's short story for the Police Technology and Civil Rights Roundtable: "The year is 2019, and body cams have become standard for patrol officers in most police departments in the US. The cams an... Read more

Excerpt: "Police-worn body cameras are coming. Support for them comes from stakeholders who often take opposing views. Law enforcement wants them, many politicians are pushing for them, and communities that already have a stron... Read on The Atlantic