D&S affiliate Christina Xu details some of her field research. Read on Medium

Kiel Brennan-Marquez unpacks Spokeo v. Robins, with an eye to effective governance of algorithms in the future. Read on Points

D&S researcher Madeleine Clare Elish asserts ethnography and anthropology's role in studying automation and intelligent systems. Cultural perceptions of the role of humans in automated and robotic systems need to be update... Read on EthnographyMatters.net

"The FBI recently announced its plan to request that their massive biometrics database, called the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, be exempted from basic requirements under the Privacy Act. These exemptions would p... Read on Points

"Code is key to civic life, but we need to start looking under the hood and thinking about the externalities of our coding practices, especially as we’re building code as fast as possible with few checks and balances." Point... Read on Points

What the journalists from SourceFed may have stumbled upon was not an instance in which search results were intentionally being manipulated in favor of a candidate, but how algorithms can reflect complex jurisdictional issues a... Read on Points

In this Points piece “Real Life Harms of Student Data,” D&S researcher Mikaela Pitcan argues that assessing real harms connected with student data forces us to acknowledge the mundane, human causes.  And she asks: "What do ... Read on Points

Annette Markham weighs in on the conversation on ethics education and considers how university educators might respond. Read on Points

"This issue goes far beyond the Trending box in the corner of your Facebook profile, and this latest wave of concerns is only the tip of the iceberg around how powerful actors can affect or shape political discourse. What is of... Read on Points

"Could policies exist to guide what algorithms find relevant? Algorithms depend on data to make recommendations. Could certain cultural metadata be embedded to ensure Canadian content has other pathways of discovery beyond a pl... Read on Points