Data Analytics Research

Freedom House has released their Freedom on the Net 2019 report that tracks the state of the internet in 65 countries around the world. The report focuses on the growing threat to freedom posed by […]

At a time of growing concern about facial recognition systems and facial data and the potential uses and misuses, a story in New York Magazine suggests that such concerns may be too little too late. […]

Location tracking can be done with a number of different technologies and for quite different purposes. An emerging practice, at least on some large college and university campuses seems to be the use of beacon […]

The Defense Innovation Board, an independent US federal advisory committee that provides advice to the Department of Defense, has issued a report with recommendations of ethical principles to guide the use of artificial intelligence for […]

An article by Lois Beckett in The Guardian provides a good overview of the state of surveillance of students in US schools. The articles describes the rise in the surveillance of communications on school-provided email […]

With the growing availability of tools for automatically and quickly processing data and then sharing such data widely, there is also growing concern about intrusions into individual lives. The proliferation of video cameras in both […]

With the growing use of data for research and applications in virtually all sectors of society, there is increasing concern about the ethical dimensions of decisions made by researchers and collaborators as they gather, process, […]

As facial recognition technology improves and becomes more pervasive, it has raised a number of concerns about uses that will impinge on privacy and liberty. These concerns are certainly justified particularly in certain political contexts. […]

Writing in the Chronicle, Lee Gardner provides details on several types of student surveillance now being implemented on college campuses. Colleges are increasing student surveillance as part of their new initiatives in data analytics. One […]

According to the Washington Post Editorial Board, China has turned its Xinjiang province into a zone of repression where a variety of data science techniques and types of data are being combined to create the ultimate […]