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IEEE Spectrum

Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better

A profile of Bruce Schneier in IEEE Spectrum

Apr 28, 2021
Slate

There’s No Such Thing as Flawless Facial Recognition Technology

Nani Jansen Reventlow warns of the limitations of facial recognition technology

Apr 24, 2021
Slate

The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Burden of Proof

Allissa Richardson joins Slate’s Amicus podcast

Apr 24, 2021
The Nation

Misinformation Is Destroying Our Country. Can Anything Rein It In?

BKC community members weigh in on political misinformation

Apr 23, 2021
The Atlantic

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…

Apr 21, 2021

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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

Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics

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

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Summer 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

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Web 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…