D&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha details the process of completely deleting data. This overwriting process is a bit like painting a wall: If you start with a white wall and paint it red, there’s no way to erase the red. If you wa... Read on FiveThirtyEight

D&S fellow Zara Rahman writes about how immigrant families use social media and digital technologies. The consequence is that the home of our deeply personal information has gone from treasured letters stored in a box at o... Read on Real Life Magazine

D&S affiliate Kate Crawford and Hito Steyerl converse about "NSA bros, dataveillance, apex predators, AI, and empathy machines." Read on The New Inquiry

D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington discusses associating weaponry, like drones, with art. The impulse to pair a technology associated with automated extralegal killing of American citizens alongside "culture and the... Read on Rhizome

“Intimate Partner Digital Abuse” complements earlier reports covering the prevalence of online harassment and abuse more broadly, as well as nonconsensual image sharing. Read more

D&S affiliate Wilneida Negrón details the ten tech issues that will impact this year. As we begin a new year and a new political administration takes office in the US, let’s take some time to consider some pressing issues ... Read on Ford Foundation blog

D&S advisor Claudia Perlich discusses modeling, transparency, and machine learning in a new episode of the Partially Derivative podcast. “One pitfall I see is that it’s easy from a social science perspective to condemn all... Read on Data & Society

D&S advisor Baratunde Thurston discusses EFF's work to encrypt the web and switch every site to https://. Read on Electronic Frontier Foundation

D&S advisor Baratunde Thurston details his exploration of The Glass Room exhibit. "I want to see The Glass Room everywhere there is an Apple Store…And anyone founding or working for a tech company should have to prove th... Read on Points

D&S fellow Alice E. Marwick wrote this op-ed discussing how online harassment disproportionately impacts women and minorities. In a divisive time for American society, it’s crucial that everyone is heard. Social media comp... Read on Quartz