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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 […]
Crystal Lee is a PhD candidate at MIT and a Senior Fellow in Responsible Computer Science at Mozilla. Her work investigates what she calls the “life-cycle of data representations,” or […]
Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and racial justice activist. She is currently the Director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. As […]
Through an examination of the literature, Kadija Ferryman synthesizes the exponential growth in health data and health information technologies, especially for marginalized populations, while also addressing common rhetorical and ethical responses to inequities in health technologies.
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.
Nathan Matias and Lucas Wright survey research to demonstrate the social justice implications of adaptive algorithms and consider how we might effectively assess the impact of human-algorithm feedback.
One Friday evening, while scrolling through Twitter, I saw an unusually long thread from a Black blogger/influencer I had been following for years. This person had been experiencing weeks of […]
How can we ethically engage a military-derived technology that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives from refrigerators to furniture? The weaponizing potential of the internet was part and parcel to its initial conceit. Yet, this history is often forgotten and therefore remains unconnected to the current violence that this life-changing technology has enabled around the world.
Abstract: Critical tech ethics is my call for action to influencers, leaders, policymakers, and educators to help move our society towards centering race, deliberately and intentionally, to tech ethics. For […]
By Jenny Ungbha KornHannah Sassaman is a nationally recognized organizer and strategist at the intersection of technology, race, and inequality. As the campaign director at Prometheus Radio Project, Hannah led the grassroots organizing […]
Matt Mitchell is a hacker, founder CryptoHarlem, and tech fellow to the BUILD program at the Ford Foundation. In his work there Matt develops cybersecurity strategy for the foundation’s grantee […]