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Reflections on applying extractives metaphors to data in an international development context

The controversy over telecommunications equipment from Chinese manufacturer Huawei is just the tip of a large cyber risk iceberg, Bruce Schneier warns.

BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser serves on Angela Merkel’s German Digital Council

A BKC team tasked hackathon participants with developing a new resource for policymakers

As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against surveillance technology -- and more limits on their use of data.

While are benefits of “smart” technology, they also afford companies significant control over the devices.

It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological

Gretchen Greene lends insight into the adoption of facial recognition technology in police departments across the U.S.

Ad tracking services are disturbingly effective.

Yochai Benkler shares concerns about industry’s influence on AI governance and research

How the vast amount of data collected from refugees is gathered, stored and shared today

10 steps to protect Human Rights

Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.

Siddharth Suri and BKC’s Mary Gray discuss their book “Ghost Work” with GeekWire

Envelopes are one of those banal objects of everyday life we seldom think much about. They are, however, an ancient — and at one time controversial — privacy technology.

Does social media affect democracy the same way across the world, or do social platforms have different effects in different nations?

Elettra Bietti on User-Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy

Localization Lab founder and Berkman Klein fellow Dragana Kaurin talks about communication tools to protect refugees, journalists, and human rights activists.

The invisible labor that makes our technology run

Democracies rely on the free exchange of ideas and information, but that freedom can also be weaponized to erode democratic debate. How can democratic societies protect—and…