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Data & SocietyThis 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 moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive 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 moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn 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 & SocietyAugust 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer outlines the central role that data plays in both medicine and health insurance, and how it enables advances and creates new challenges. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines networked technologies and analyzes how they are used for widespread workplace surveillance in a variety of employment sectors. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer discusses the inference of relationships by data-oriented systems and analyzes the possible social, cultural, and ethical tensions that may arise from these connections. Read moreMarch 2014 -
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Data & Society"Data Supply Chains" analyzes three case studies and investigates the major social, cultural, and ethical tensions that emerge as a result of transferred data. Read moreMarch 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis workshop primer analyzes the implications and potential consequences of predictive analytics on employment, education, and policing. Read moreMarch 2014