D&S INFRA Lead Ingrid Burrington reflects on the concept of the future in anticipation of the upcoming show Futureproof that she curated at Haverford College. "Trying to build alternative futures is often a process of faci... Read on Futureproof

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler unpacks how private companies hide flaws in software that the government uses to convict and exonerate people in the criminal justice system. What’s alarming about protecting trade se... Read on Washington Monthly

D&S resident Rebecca Wexler describes the flaws of an increasingly automated criminal justice system The root of the problem is that automated criminal justice technologies are largely privately owned and sold for profit... Read on The New York Times

D&S researcher Mark Latonero provides an overview of the role of large tech companies in refugee crises. While the 40-page brief is filled with arguments in support of immigration, it hardly speaks about refugees, except t... Read on Harvard Business Review

D&S researcher Mary Madden was interviewed by the American Press Institute about Madden's recent Knight Foundation-supported report, "How Youth Navigate the News Landscape." However, one of my favorite quotes was from a pa... Read on American Press Institute

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, and Surya Mattu complete the Black Box series with an analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri that shows that some major insurers charge minority ... Read on ProPublica

D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington explores the importance of domain names at NamesCon, an annual conference for the domain-names industry. In addition to being crucial to making the web work, domain names are also ... Read on The Atlantic

D&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha details the process of completely deleting data. This overwriting process is a bit like painting a wall: If you start with a white wall and paint it red, there’s no way to erase the red. If you wa... Read on FiveThirtyEight

D&S fellow Zara Rahman writes about how immigrant families use social media and digital technologies. The consequence is that the home of our deeply personal information has gone from treasured letters stored in a box at o... Read on Real Life Magazine

D&S affiliate Kate Crawford and Hito Steyerl converse about "NSA bros, dataveillance, apex predators, AI, and empathy machines." Read on The New Inquiry