D&S Affiliate Kate Crawford writes about the use of social media platforms and mobile phone data to mine and produce accounts of how people are responding in the aftermath of crisis events. She considers the limitations of ... Read on GeoJournal

The growth of the Identity State is premised on the administrative fantasy that citizens can be grasped, fixed, and rendered stable in the state’s imagination. Biometric technologies are seen as core to this act of fixation, de... Read more

In this guest blogpost for the Responsible Data Forum, D&S fellow Mark Latonero provides an overview of the issues and tensions addressed by the Data, Human Rights & Human Security primer he coauthored with research ana... Read on Responsible Data

This primer highlights the emergent complexities at the intersection of data, human rights, and human security, and argues that more foundational work and leadership is needed in this area. Read more

D&S researcher Monica Bulger, Sonia Livingstone, and Jasmina Byrne wrote up a summary Report of a seminar held on February, 12-14 2015 at the London School of Economics and Political Science examining whether and how childr... Read on London School of Economics Media

D&S Fellow Mark Latonero and colleagues at USC Annenberg recently released a report on technology and labor trafficking. From USC Annenberg: Migrant workers who are isolated from technology and social networks are more v... Read more

In this piece, Data & Society fellow Karen Levy criticizes the oversimplifications of technological tools that attempt to "solve" rape. "It’s encouraging to see techies trying to address knotty social issues like sexual vio... Read on The Atlantic

Within some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and c... Read on Social Politics