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« 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
Facebook’s White Paper on the Future of Online Content Regulation
evelyn douek reviews a recent white paper from Facebook on online content moderation
Under whose thumb? Inside a Rolling Stones copyright mystery
BKC faculty associate Jennifer Jenkins on the differences between European and US copyright law when it comes to the…
What’s the future of the internet — and society?
Learning from our past and reevaluating our present, a recent World Affairs Council event opened discussion for what’s…
Is the Smart City a Good City?
An overview of smart cities and whether they can be forces for good.
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The Internet Robustness project is developing, testing, and piloting software and protocols to safeguard the promise of… More
Internet Monitor
Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content… More
AI: Educational Activities
The Berkman Klein Center has worked to build a robust community and institutional activities leveraging the University… More
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the way we use technology
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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
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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In Principle and in Practice
A conversation about AI principles More
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