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NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault data. Cybersafety experts explain why it’s a date with disaster
Zahra Stardust and colleagues on cybersecurity and dating apps
The $4 Billion App That Doesn’t Value Privacy, Security or Accessibility
Elizabeth Renieris pens essay about Clubhouse
Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better
A profile of Bruce Schneier in IEEE Spectrum
On Social Media, American-Style Free Speech Is Dead
A Q&A with evelyn douek
There’s No Such Thing as Flawless Facial Recognition Technology
Nani Jansen Reventlow warns of the limitations of facial recognition technology
The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Burden of Proof
Allissa Richardson joins Slate’s Amicus podcast
Misinformation Is Destroying Our Country. Can Anything Rein It In?
BKC community members weigh in on political misinformation
What Facebook Did for Chauvin’s Trial Should Happen All the Time
evelyn douek says that if Facebook can discourage hate speech and incitements to violence on a special occasion, it can…
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Assembly Project Fellowship Showcase
An inside look at the work of the 2021 Assembly Fellows on Disinformation, Privacy, and Ethical AI
Anasuya Sengupta, Sabelo Mhlambi, Andrew Zolli, and Aarathi Krishnan discuss if humanitarian actors can play a more…
Edgelands Institute APAC Launch
The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass…
Governing the Social Media City
Video & Podcast: Two former tech insiders turned public advocates discuss ways that platforms can mitigate all kinds of…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsSummer Institute
The Summer Institute is a fully online educational program offered to undergraduate and graduate students by the…
Assembly: Disinformation
The Assembly: Disinformation Program brings together participants from academia, industry, government, and civil…
BKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
BKC Policy Practice: Digital Pandemic Response
The BKC Policy Practice on Digital Pandemic Response is an interdisciplinary program that works with public and private…
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsWeb Integrity Project
The Web Integrity Project (WIP) monitors changes to government websites
The Ethics of Digitalization
Led by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Berkman Klein Center, and the Digital…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Privacy Tools
The Privacy Tools Project is a broad effort to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy issues and…
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologi…
Internet Health
Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to…
Privacy & Security
Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the…