Predictive policing systems are increasingly used by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data?   Machine learning algorithms ar... Read more

D&S founder danah boyd spoke at the Algorithmic Accountability and Transparency in the Digital Economy panel at the EU Parliament. Read on ALDE Group

As algorithms increasingly mediate education, employment, consumer credit, and the criminal justice system, how do we measure their impact on our society?     Tracing her experiences as a mathematician an... Read more

As an increasing number of industries digitize, the economy around data analysis – particularly predictive modeling – has exploded. The problem is, we don’t have any real way to understand, analyze, or predict the accuracy of t... Read more

When Karen discovered she had a life threatening heart condition, the last thing she expected was to have to worry about software. Now, with a heart device implanted in her body, she has come to understand not only how vulnerab... Read more

In this Databite, Beth Bechky turns her lens of organizational ethnography on the workers handling DNA evidence in a crime lab. She examines how doing science in the service of justice is influenced by advances in data and tech... Read more

Attorney and Internet Law & Policy Foundry fellow Amanda Levendowski discusses how to craft effective online harassment and abuse reporting policies (HARP). She discusses the online harassment taxonomy and platform permeabi... Read more

The public interest concept has traditionally been a central, multi-faceted, and highly contested guiding principle in the governance of media platforms that have played a significant role in the dissemination of news and infor... Read more