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News on Surveillance Technology
When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the National Security Agency or the FBI. You might even think of a powerful police agency, […]
By Georgetown Center on Privacy & Technology In this interview, Matt Mitchell discusses his experinces as a hacker, developer, operational security trainer, security researcher, and data journalist.
Professor Arnett holds expertise in the areas of criminal procedure, race and technology, juvenile law, and education law. His research explores the interplay between race, digital technologies, and criminal legal […]
Amelia Gibson and Rua Williams explore academic scholarship and public discussion around disability access and accessibility and problematize the idea that disabled people truly have access to technology in contexts where they do not control technology.
As part of our “What Is Just Tech?” series, we invited several social researchers—scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists—to respond to a simple yet fundamental question: “What is just technology?” This […]
Race and technology are closely intertwined, continuously influencing and reshaping one another. While algorithmic bias has received increased attention in recent years, it is only one of the many ways […]
Ruha Benjamin is a professor in the Department of African American studies at Princeton University where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is also the […]
Dr. Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist, poet of code, and model who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice […]
When then-Mayor Richard M. Daley ushered in Chicago’s red-light cameras nearly two decades ago, he said they would help the city curb dangerous driving. “This is all about safety, safety […]
By Laila MilevskiSharad Goel is a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He looks at public policy through the lens of computer science, bringing a computational perspective to a diverse […]
Clementine Jacoby is the Executive Director at Recidiviz — a nonprofit building an open-source platform to turn fragmented criminal justice data into actionable insights for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and the […]