Data Analytics Research

An article by Chris Smith explains how Google is using data it gathers from android phones to examine the use of apps and develop its own versions to compete. While Google claims that the data […]

In an article for the ACLU, director Kade Crockford explains the use of facial recognition data (as well as data on our irises, walking patterns, and voices) by the FBI. Apparently, the use of this […]

Writing in Medium, Jathan Sadowski argues that now is the time to begin dismantling the extensive infrastructure of surveillance that has grown up in recent years. This would include genuine efforts to stop the use […]

While there has been a good deal of attention on consumer data and the rights of consumers to know what data is being collected about them and how it is being used, there has been […]

For an inside look at some of the ways the U.S. National Security Agency uses vast stores of telephone data as a foundation for mass surveillance of the American people, check out an excerpt from […]

Microsoft is releasing three new toolkits to support data privacy and ethical AI as part of Microsoft’s initiative for more explainable, secure, and just artificial intelligence in systems. The White Noise toolkit supports differential privacy. […]

As the Coronavirus spreads death and fear throughout the world, the forces that have been chipping away at individual privacy and autonomy for decades have received a boost that will enable them to gather even […]

US commentators have been quick to point to the growing surveillance capacities of the Chinese government powered by the network of cameras and more powerful facial recognition technologies. Such capacities are viewed as both positive […]