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Buzzfeed

An Entire City Has Been Told To Download A Controversial Contact Tracing App

Bruce Schneier shares his opinion on contact tracing apps

May 6, 2020
Quartz

Hong Kong’s mass arrests are giving police crucial intelligence: people’s phones

Nathan Kaiser on the use of search warrants to search phones

May 6, 2020
People + AI Research

Q&A: Sabelo Mhlambi on what AI can learn from Ubuntu ethics

David Weinberger interviews Sabelo Mhlambi

May 6, 2020

Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign

A new paper co-authored by BKC affiliate Joan Donovan explores tactics of disinformation to show how platform design and decentralized communication contribute to advancing the…

May 5, 2020
Legal Tech News

Supreme Court Justices Debate Generic .Com Trademark Registration

Amicus brief from Rebecca Tushnet cited by Supreme Court Justices

May 4, 2020
MIT Technology Review

Covid hoaxes are using a loophole to stay alive—even after content is deleted

Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback Machine to promote “zombie content” that evades moderators and fact-checkers

Apr 30, 2020
Voices in AI

A Conversation with David Weinberger

Weinberger joins “Voices in AI” to discuss his views on AI

Apr 30, 2020
Harvard Business Review

The Case for AI Insurance

BKC’s Ram Shankar Siva Kumar joins Frank Nagle to explore Adversarial Machine Learning's impact on businesses.  “Most major companies, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft,…

Apr 29, 2020
NBC4 WCMH

Do’s and Don’ts of sharing content involving your kids

When it comes to children’s privacy online, the law is spotty.

Apr 29, 2020
WGBH

Waide Warner on the state of Internet connectivity in Massachusetts

Listen to the BKC affiliate on "In it Together" from WGBH

Apr 29, 2020
BuzzFeed News

Contact Tracing Is One Of Our Best Shots To Reopen The Country, If We Don't Blow It

Without enough human contact tracers to identify infected people, the US is barreling toward a digital solution, and possible disaster.

Apr 29, 2020
Medium

Wanted: New Tools To Tame the Wild West of the Internet

It is time for a coordinated effort between government, law enforcement, and developers to create an Internet we can trust.

Apr 28, 2020
Bloomberg Law

Georgia Loses Legal Code Copyright Clash at Supreme Court

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court sided with public.resource.org. Cyberlaw Clinic students worked with Kendra Albert, Christopher Bavitz, and the Harvard Library Innovation…

Apr 27, 2020
Open Democracy

We can’t let tech companies use algorithms to police us after COVID-19

The pandemic has demonstrated the risks of relying on algorithms to remove harmful content.

Apr 24, 2020
Medium

Don’t Price Poor Countries Out of the Market For COVID-19 Vaccines & Treatments

As scientists scramble to develop effective diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines for COVID-19, we must make sure that everyone around the world has access to lifesaving medicines…

Apr 24, 2020
Medium

Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning

Adversarial machine-learning attacks and defenses have political dimensions

Apr 23, 2020
CNN

We've made new rules to protect our families. We must protect kids' privacy too.

Leah Plunkett on the importance of protecting child privacy while social distancing.

Apr 22, 2020
Americas Quarterly

Latin America Hopes Big Data Can Beat the Virus. But There Are Risks.

Beatriz Botero Arcila warns that while location data might help address the coronavirus outbreak, it also threatens the privacy of citizens.

Apr 21, 2020
The Hill

How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing

Mary Gray proposes several ways that technology can aid in the fight against COVID-19 that help rather than replace healthcare workers.

Apr 21, 2020