This primer maps the peer-to-peer/marketplace lending ecosystem in order to ground the "Data & Fairness" initiative's investigations into its benefits and challenges and potential for fairness and discrimination. Read more

On May 19, 2015 a group of about 20 individuals gathered at New America in Washington, DC for a discussion co-hosted by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Data & Society Research Institute, Upturn, and New... Read more

Maurice Mitchell (@MauriceWFP) on hacking black democracy: Maurice talks about black communities as democratic dead zones in which segregation concentrates harm in communities and disappears social problems from dominant pop... Read more

Although we cannot disclaim the utility of genetic data, it is important to consider whether we are being socially and governmentally coerced to relinquish our genetic data. If so, what does this mean for privacy and discrimina... Read more

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

"Algorithms are a part of our daily lives, impacting everything from our Internet searches, to our credit scores, healthcare and policing. As they become more ubiquitous, The Agenda asks whether we should allow ourselves to be ... Read on The Agenda with Steve Paikin

In the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, as well as the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country, there has been a call to mandate the use of body-worn cameras to promote accou... Read more

"Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC [and a D&S fellow]. She discusses the automated systems, known as algorithms, that are replacing human discretion more and mor... Read on Radio NZ