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Henry Farrell and BKC’s Bruce Schneier write a Forum Response to reactions to their earlier essay

What is the impact of digital technologies on deep-rooted Brazilian inequalities?

Sarah Newman discusses her Moral Labyrinth installation

Sabelo Mhlambi discusses why technology cannot be neutral

Chinmayi Arun on how AI affects, and will continue to affect, the Global South

metaLAB collaborates with local designer and researcher to create interactive, public tastings

As Microsoft works on cloud security, it’s looking to attract `White Hat’ hackers with rewards and legal guarantees.

Pew survey finds that half of U.S. adults consider fake news a major problem, and they mostly blame politicians and activists for it

Facebook is just one part of a broader media ecosystem, and not necessarily the most important one

A new paper used YouTubers’ voices to guess what they looked like. Was it ethical? Casey Fiesler weighs in.

Disparity between what people think data is worth, what industry pays for it poses challenge to tech equity talks

The AI industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more and more businesses.

How online misinformation can fuel epidemics such as Ebola virus disease and measles

Desmond Patton says law enforcement officials should analyze social media posts about grief and stress to prevent violent crime among young people.

When people learn to code, they should also learn about ethics, humanities, and equity. Then perhaps they’ll be more prepared to predict the unintended consequences of their work,…

Our next challenge is to find the mix of tools and approaches that strengthen public discourse that work in the digital age, Rob Faris argues

ICANN handed over the top level domain .amazon to Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com, pending a 30 day comment period

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