Dirty Data, Bad Predictions
How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems and Society More
How to Work with Tech Companies on Human Rights
Insights from a decade of multi-stakeholder collaboration (and an argument with Steve Jobs) More
Constitutionalizing Speech Platforms
Featuring Kate Klonick and Thomas Kadri with members of the BKC community More
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The long, deep ties between Harvard and Germany
BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser serves on Angela Merkel’s German Digital Council
Algorithmic fairness tools explored at MIT Policy Hackathon
A BKC team tasked hackathon participants with developing a new resource for policymakers
Surveillance technology under fire, amid growing societal concerns
As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against…
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
While are benefits of “smart” technology, they also afford companies significant control over the devices.
The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological
Some US Cities Are Moving into Real-Time Facial Surveillance
Gretchen Greene lends insight into the adoption of facial recognition technology in police departments across the U.S.
The Bizarre Accuracy of Online Ads
Ad tracking services are disturbingly effective.
How Tech Companies Are Shaping the Rules Governing AI
Yochai Benkler shares concerns about industry’s influence on AI governance and research
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See all Projects & ToolsAI: Algorithms and Justice
The use of algorithms in the judiciary has already raised significant questions about bias and fairness, and looking… More
Privacy Initiatives
The Berkman Klein Center has long been home to a number of cross-disciplinary initiatives that investigate privacy and… More
Global Access in Action
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts… More
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions More
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the way we use technology
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
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
Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse
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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Ghost Work
How services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the… More
Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines
Are the algorithms that surface and rank your resume for job recruiters biased with respect to gender? More
The social media have been accused of contributing to everything from terrorism to genocide. They have also been the… More
Everyday Chaos
In his new book, Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger points to accepted ways we work on the Internet that in fact undo our… More