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

How do young people of low socio-economic status (SES) view online privacy? D&S fellow Alice Marwick, researcher Claire Fontaine, and president and founder danah boyd examine this question in their study. " Framing online ... Read on Sage Journals

Protecting Patron Privacy, edited by Bobbi Newman and Data & Society Researcher Bonnie Tijerina, suggests strategies for data privacy in libraries. Although privacy is one of the core tenets of librarianship, technology ch... Read on Rowman & Littlefield

D&S affiliate Seeta Peña Gangadharan writes about defending digital rights of library patrons. If this sounds complicated and scary, that’s because it is. But confronted with this matrix of vulnerabilities, the library—wit... Read on New America

D&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha states that discarded and sold hardware often has data still on it. It’s not just individuals who are lax about removing data, companies around the world are at fault as well. In a 2007 study rese... Read on Quartz

D&S researcher Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, D&S affiliate Karen Levy, and D&S fellow Alice Marwick examine how poor Americans are impacted by privacy violations and discuss how to protect digital privacy for the vul... Read on Washington University Law Review

Data & Society Affiliate Amanda Lenhart presents on the prevalence and potential effects of online harassment, and Data & Society Fellow Alice Marwick shares best practices for conducting risky research.   ... Read more

Ryan Calo and D&S researcher Alex Rosenblat write this analysis of the newly termed 'taking economy' of Uber. Sharing economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb facilitate trusted transactions between strangers on digital platf... Read on Columbia Law Review

D&S researcher Monica Bulger, with Patrick McCormick and D&S research analyst Mikaela Pitcan, writes this working paper detailing the "Legacy of inBloom". Although inBloom closed in 2014, it ignited a public discussion... Read more

Jonathan Mayer presents: Regulating Security and Privacy. Regulatory agencies—especially the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission—have risen to prominence on technology security and privacy issu... Read more