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Data & SocietyArtist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington and fellow Surya Mattu teamed up on a curriculum and toolkit of digital and analog resources for teaching people about the physical realities, hardware, and power dynamics of the Internet. ... Read moreMarch 2016 -
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Data & SocietyThe Digital Privacy & Data Literacy project's first learning modules are now available online! These first modules teach the history and evolving role of the library in ensuring patron privacy and the basics of how infor... Read moreFebruary 2016 -
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GitBooksD&S fellow Mimi Onuoha along with Jeanne Pinder and Jan Schaffer at the Tow Center have put together a comprehensive guide on crowdsourcing. The guide is organized around a journalism-related definition of crowdsourcing and... Read on GitBooksNovember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer offers an overview of what is currently known about body-worn cameras, and highlights the unanswered questions about how body-worn camera programs may impact civil rights and civil liberties. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the growing use of social media as a law enforcement tool for surveillance, as well as how social media surveillance affects First and Fourth Amendment rights. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores unjust bias in the criminal justice system, and explains how, without the right safeguards, there is a real risk that new technologies could become instruments of injustice. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines the construction of predictive algorithms; how they are are used in the court system; and the role of data in evidence-based sentencing. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer investigates the increasing use of biometric technologies in policing, and the civil liberties and civil rights concerns that need to be raised alongside these technological advances. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing refers to the use of analytical techniques to make statistical predictions about potential criminal activity. The basic underlying assumption of predictive policing is that crime is not randomly distributed ... Read moreOctober 2015