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Data & SocietyArvind Narayanan is a computer scientist at Princeton. He advised a Master's thesis, described in Section 2, that utilized a similar methodology to the Encore project. Bendert Zevenbergen is a Ph.D candidate and researcher at t... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn collaboration with New America, the Brooklyn Public Library, Research Action Design, and the Metropolitan New York Library Council, Data & Society launched The Data Privacy Project to equip library staff with the skills ... Read on Data & SocietyAugust 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer maps the peer-to-peer/marketplace lending ecosystem in order to ground the "Data & Fairness" initiative's investigations into its benefits and challenges and potential for fairness and discrimination. Read moreJuly 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis 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 moreJune 2015 -
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Data & SocietyD&S fellow Tim Hwang participated in a session on "Memory Holes and Security Blankets," a discussion focusing on the legal and policy consequences of systems that process audio, at Listening Machines Summit. Tim's talk d... Read moreJune 2015 -
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London School of Economics MediaD&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 MediaApril 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, as well as the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country, there has been a call to mandate the use of body-worn cameras to promote accou... Read moreFebruary 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the application of big data tools and practices in a criminal justice context, and raises questions about the kinds of data used for analysis and consequences of error, bias, or inaccuracies. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer discusses data-driven education and the increasing use of data in educational reform, while raising both concerns and challenges within this growing field. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the persistent obstacles that communities of color face within our consumer finance system, and investigates the role of rapidly changing technologies therein. Read moreOctober 2014