Wednesday March 20: 7:00PM – 8:00PM Event Admission Signed Copy, No AdmissionDoors open 30 minutes before the start of the event.Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation,…

The Public Interest Technology University Network is a partnership between the Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, New America, and 21 colleges and universities dedicated to building the nascent…

CAPstat is a demonstration project representing data drawn from lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by New York City Police Department officers

The Legal Aid Society has created a searchable database of lawsuits filed against the police since 2015 to help identify problematic officers and units.

What’s keeping the federal government from identifying undocumented people who respond to a citizenship question on the census? #globalnation

Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium’s head of trust and safety.

Our Data Bodies (ODB) has conducted research and produced a workbook of popular education activities focused on data, surveillance, and community safety to co-create and share knowledge, analyses, and…

Michael Sitrick will fuck with your moral compass

Explaining the tradeoffs when implementing formal privacy By law, the Census Bureau is required to keep our responses to its questionnaires confidential. And so, over decades, it has applied several…

Note: This talk is sold out. Watch the Data & Society livestream of this talk by Shoshana Zuboff based on her latest book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New…

8AM-8:45AM: Continental Breakfast (Capitol Prefunction) 8:45AM-09AM: Opening Remarks 09AM-10:00AM: Keynote 1 Many of the settings in which we seek to quantify notions of fairness and equity are based…

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danah boyd SXSW March 13, 2010 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity." SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13. Good afternoon!…

A key goal of the FAT* community is to develop machine-learning based systems that, once introduced into a social context, can achieve social and legal outcomes

AI is not, and will not be, perfect.

Katie Benner of The New York Times explores digital overload, among the greatest challenges of modern life, with Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel; Representative Tim Ryan, author of “Healing America;”…

(New York, NY) — As subway delays continue to frustrate New Yorkers and disrupt commutes, Comptroller Stringer today released a first-of-its-kind economic analysis that shows New York City’s economy…

The datasets and models used in these systems are not objective representations of reality. They are the culmination of particular tools, people, and power structures that foreground one way of seeing…

New report by Robyn Caplan illustrates the organizational contexts of three types of content moderation strategies by drawing from interviews with 10 major digital platforms.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 18, 2019 Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week Internship program. The …

Brooklyn teens are protesting their high school’s adoption of an online program spawned by Facebook, saying it forces them to stare at computers for hours and “teach ourselves.” Nearly 100 students…