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"The planned changes will undermine freedom of expression and privacy online, weakening Indian democracy itself."

The story we tell about our right to privacy an interesting one, but distracts us away from work that needs to be done. 

What makes people susceptible to fake news and other forms of strategic misinformation?

In her new book "Memes to Movements," An Xiao Mina explores how people from a historically overlooked nation such as Uganda are able to drive the conversation on issues in…

During confirmation hearings AG nominee William Barr is asked how private social media platform's could explicitly attempt to sway an election, and whether there are any remedies…

This app uses US Census Data and a linguistic algorithm to "Americanize" submitted names, and provoke thought about how names and identities are considered in society

This new publication from the Digital Asia Hub collects the outputs of a two-day speculative fiction–writing workshop held in December 2018

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s oversight of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market is on hiatus as the government shutdown lingers.

The recent partnership between privacy-focused search tool Duck Duck Go and Apple has an uncertain implications for the future of privacy on the engine.

Questions are emerging regarding the adequacy of our current economic policies and practices, the social contract between citizens, businesses and governments and the metrics used…

In her new book “Thick: And Other Essays," Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Tressie McMillan Cottom tackles topics ranging from poverty, to race, to healthcare.

A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline

A legal education simulation puts students in the role of a county judge at a bail hearing, and prompts them to detain or release individual defendants pending trial.

An excerpt from Memes to Movements: How the World’s Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power

How ethics embeds in technology

A profile of "Data Cowboy" Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, who trains security algorithms

“We increasingly see every problem as a technology-related problem, so the solution is more technology”

AirBnB may be exempt from a local ordinance regulating local short-term rentals by way of the Communications Decency Act

“It’s worse than the tax code. The copyright term is way too long now.”

Chinmayi Arun's work on law and technology in India earned her a place on Salil Tripathi's list of 36 brilliant Indian women for The Print