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The Role of Digital Evidence in the Persecution of LGBTQ People in Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia
Resources and participant work from the Platform Cooperative Consortium/BKC "Alternative Data Futures" research sprint…
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Why COVID Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier explains that paper vaccine cards strike a good balance between ease and security.
Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog have devised a series of recommendations to better Internet governance in "Breached!…
How Wikipedia gets to define what’s true online
Ethan Zuckerman traces Wikipedia's transformation from controversial to trusted source.
Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops
Nathan Matias and Lucas Wright provide useful tools to understand how adaptive algorithms can make an impact on…
Futures of Digital Governance
Urs Gasser and Virgílio Almeida take a historical look at the evolution of Internet governance to help inform the…
Don’t Call Us Edge Cases – Designing From the Margins
Afsaneh Rigot explains why Design from the Margins is necessary and salutary...
Why Hermès Probably Can’t Stop the MetaBirkin
Primavera De Filippi explains the implications of an NTF collection featuring fuzzy versions of Hermès bags.
Has Godwin’s Law, the Rule of Nazi Comparisons, Been Disproved?
Dariusz Jemielniak speaks on his research on Godwin's Law.
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Student and Research Assistant ‘Unoffice Hours’
Learn about RA opportunities available for current Harvard students for Spring 2022...
BKC Research Assistant Information Session
Learn about RA opportunities available for current Harvard students for Spring 2022...
Lumen is hosting a series of weekly sessions every Tuesday for potential researchers interested in working with the…
Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s
To reflect on contemporary battles and conundrums over socio-technical vulnerability and security, this talk will cover…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsThe Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
BKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
Cyberlaw Clinic
Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to…
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See all Projects & ToolsAlternative Data Futures: Cooperative Principles, Data Trusts, and the Digital Economy
The New School's Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Berkman Klein Center ran a Research Sprint to explore new…
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
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…