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Censorship and Collateral Damage
Analyzing the Telegram Ban in Iran More
Major upgrade for TagTeam, the open-source tagging platform
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How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you…
Helping Global Policymakers Navigate AI’s Challenges and Opportunities
Giving policymakers practical steps to help close the many gaps they see in understanding how to deal with Artificial…
The Uncertain Effects of HTTPS Adoption on Access to Information Worldwide
The wider adoption of encrypted protocols for website delivery — HTTPS — could have uncertain long-term implications…
Searching, Browsing, and Filtering Open Access Content in Digital Collections
A look at the user interfaces of 4 different online libraries
Filling the void Alex Jones left behind
How social media bans reshape the filter bubble
Dealing with an epidemic
Examining the unique socio-economic characteristics that affect how Small Islands States cope with health epidemics.
Don’t fear the TSA cutting airport security. Be glad that they’re talking about it.
Despite largely negative media coverage of the subject, it is a good thing that TSA is brainstorming ways to optimize…
Toward a safe and open Internet in Pakistan
Navigating and Understanding Digital Rights in Pakistan
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The Berklett Cybersecurity project is a unique forum for discussing true and important, and often novel, facts, and… More
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The AGTech Forum provides opportunities for collaborative engagement among state attorneys general, technology… More
Global Access in Action
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts… More
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The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives is raising pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these techn… 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
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… More
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The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analy… More
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Re-Engineering Humanity
Re-Engineering Humanity brings a pragmatic if somewhat dystopic perspective to the technological phenomena of our age… More
The State of Government Technology
On this US election day, we are pleased to take a close look at the inner workings of government, with a particular… More
Custodians of the Internet
In this talk Gillespie argues that content moderation is not ancillary to what platforms do, but that it is essential,… More
Automating Inequality
In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms,… More