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The BKC faculty associate discusses the importance of meaningful interaction with the people behind data

Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center canvassed technology experts in the summer of 2019 to gain their insights about the potential future…

Woodrow Hartzog argues that any US version of GDPR would, in practice, be something of a GDPR-lite.

Leonard Cortana on why France’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Les Misérables, should be inscribed in the history of…

How can putting marginalized people at the very center of design and technology change the world for the better?

David Weinberger explores fairness in the world of AI, and asks: what counts as relevant, and what trade-offs are necessary to be “fair”?

Elizabeth Renieris on why we should not celebrate Google's move to remove third-party cookies from Chrome

Discussing Facebook’s Oversight Board

evelyn douek reviews a recent white paper from Facebook on online content moderation

BKC faculty associate Jennifer Jenkins on the differences between European and US copyright law when it comes to the rights of musicians

Learning from our past and reevaluating our present, a recent World Affairs Council event opened discussion for what’s next in the world of information access.

An overview of smart cities and whether they can be forces for good.

Alex Stamos discusses his experience at Facebook handling 2016 election interference, as well as his work on cybersecurity, disinformation, and end-to-end encryption with evelyn…

Jessica Fjeld, lead author of Principled AI, answered questions about the report and its implications

As Amazon expands its reign over e-commerce and gets more aggressive about rooting out counterfeiting, it’s taking a more active role in judging intellectual property disputes

Julie Owono was recently quoted in leading French Magazine L'Express about a social media tax, proposed by a French MP, to fight against hate speech online

evelyn douek urges transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions

Dariusz Jemielniak on a Chinese app that tracks the spread of the coronavirus.

Ifeoma Ajunwa testifies in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

Jonathan Zittrain argues that while platforms might consider labeling videos like these as manipulated, they should not remove them entirely.