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AI can flag people based on their clothing or behavior, identify people's emotions, and find people who are acting "unusual”

Jonas Kaiser talks about his YouTube research and calls for transparency

The belief that China’s surveillance gives it an advantage is misleading—and dangerous, argues Bruce Schneier

BKC’s Judith Donath lends insight into the role of AI in parenting

Research from BKC Faculty Co-Director William Fisher lends insight into the complaint

There are thousands of different tongues spoken around the world, but most of the content on the web is only available in a select few, primarily English.

Chinmayi Arun hosts a discussion with Microsoft President during 2019 Verify Conference

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