Research and Resource Library
This library includes Data & Society publications produced over our 10+ year history. Our research, events, and insights explore how technology shapes society, and how society can shape technology in turn.
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Poverty Lawgorithms: A Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities
"Poverty Lawgorithms" is a guide for poverty lawyers that explains automated decision-making…
September 15, 2020
Report
Voices of the Poor Must Be Heard in the Data Privacy Debate
Michele Gilman argues for the inclusion of low-income people in the conversation around data…
May 14, 2019
Article
The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age
In this op-ed for The New York Times, Data & Society Research Lead Mary Madden argues that there is…
April 25, 2019
Article
Privacy, Security, and Digital Inequality
“Privacy, Security, and Digital Inequality” by Mary Madden is the first in-depth analysis of the…
September 27, 2017
Audio
Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
D&S researcher Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, D&S affiliate Karen Levy, and D&S fellow Alice Marwick…
March 9, 2017
Academic article
The Class Differential in Big Data and Privacy Vulnerability
Abstract: Low-income communities have historically been subject to a wide range of governmental…
January 1, 2017
Academic article
The computer algorithms that run our lives
"Seeta Gangadharan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open Technology Institute in Washington DC…
February 23, 2015
Audio