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With the expansion of remote learning, schools have increasingly deployed technically sophisticated means of monitoring individual student’s online activity, including student activity monitoring software that rarely limits its data collection […]
By Cody VenzkeIn late 2021, the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) launched its AI Bill of Rights initiative to address AI systems that enable and worsen discrimination and privacy risks, […]
By Ridhi Shetty and Hannah Quay-de la ValleeWearing Many Hats: the Rise of the Professional Security Hacker chronicles the largely untold history of the hacker-turned-professional. Through this seminal work, researchers Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman collaborate to […]
By Matt Goerzen and Gabriella ColemanIN MAY 2021, Twitter, a platform notorious for abuse and hot-headedness, rolled out a “prompts” feature that suggests users think twice before sending a tweet. The following month, Facebook announced AI “conflict alerts” for groups, […]
By Will ColdwellRace 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 […]
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 […]
Today, one in three online users is under 18, but the original design of most digital technologies did not anticipate the use of those technologies by children. IEEE 2089™-2021, Standard […]
YouTube is a major conduit of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide and is not doing enough to tackle the spread of falsehoods on its platform, according to a global coalition […]
By Dan MilmoClass assignment Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with […]
By Craig Silverman, Craig Timberg Jeff Kao, and Jeremy B. MerrillPeople’s sense of being subject to digital dataveillance can cause them to restrict their digital communication behavior. Such a chilling effect is essentially a form of self-censorship in everyday digital […]
By Moritz Büchi, Noemi Festic, and Michael LatzerMachine learning algorithms pervade contemporary society. They are integral to social institutions, inform processes of governance, and animate the mundane technologies of daily life. Consistently, the outcomes of machine learning […]
By Jenny L. Davis, Apryl Williams, and Michael W. Yang