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Longform
The New InquiryD&S affiliate Kate Crawford and Hito Steyerl converse about "NSA bros, dataveillance, apex predators, AI, and empathy machines." Read on The New InquiryJanuary 2017 -
podcast
Data & SocietyD&S advisor Claudia Perlich discusses modeling, transparency, and machine learning in a new episode of the Partially Derivative podcast. “One pitfall I see is that it’s easy from a social science perspective to condemn all... Read on Data & SocietyJanuary 2017 -
blog post
BackchannelD&S advisor Susan Crawford discusses how streetlights are becoming a part of the Internet of Things. But the third step was the charm: This past summer, Santa Monica adopted an ordinance requiring that wireless carriers ge... Read on BackchannelOctober 2016 -
Academic Article
SSRND&S Affiliates Ifeoma Ajunwa, Kate Crawford, and Jason Schultz examine the effectiveness of the law as a check on worker surveillance, given recent technological innovations. This law review article focuses on popular trend... Read on SSRNMarch 2016 -
Resource
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