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The system is rigged against users
BKC fellow Beatriz Botero Arcila on why getting compensated for your personal data is not a good idea.
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
Is the dream of an 'open' internet dead?
As some countries restrict and replace content, are we headed toward a world of multiple internets?
Many Tech Experts Say Digital Disruption Will Hurt Democracy
Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center canvassed technology experts in the summer of…
« Les Misérables », affaire classée ?
Leonard Cortana on why France’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Les Misérables,…
Imagine Otherwise: Sasha Costanza-Chock on Design Justice
How can putting marginalized people at the very center of design and technology change the world for the better?
Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself
Elizabeth Renieris on why we should not celebrate Google's move to remove third-party cookies from Chrome
“Why is Facebook drawing the line where it’s drawing the line?”
Discussing Facebook’s Oversight Board
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Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content… More
Internet Robustness
The Internet Robustness project is developing, testing, and piloting software and protocols to safeguard the promise of… More
AI: Educational Activities
The Berkman Klein Center has worked to build a robust community and institutional activities leveraging the University… More
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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… More
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… More
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… More
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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… More
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In Principle and in Practice
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All Data Are Local
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. More
The United States spends $6billion a year on rural broadband deployment, and yet the digital divide may be growing… More
Zac Kriegman describes his path from a Harvard JD to a data science career focused on deep learning. More