Big Data
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Essays and Scholarship
Privacy, Autonomy, and the Dissolution of Markets
Pathways from platform capitalism
By Kiel Brennan-Marquez & Daniel Susser -
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Essays and Scholarship
The CLOUD Act and the Accused
Privacy asymmetries limit access to evidence of innocence and are worsening in the global data economy. But the proper reading of a key statute could help reverse the inequity.
By Rebecca Wexler -
Essays and Scholarship
The Democratic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
A case for focusing on forward-looking policy considerations rather than a rights framework in regulating “AI systems”
By Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar & Aziz Z. Huq -
Essays and Scholarship
A Safe Harbor for Platform Research
Knight Institute policy paper proposes legal protection for certain research and newsgathering projects focused on platforms
By Alex Abdo , Ramya Krishnan , Stephanie Krent , Evan Welber Falcón & Andrew Keane Woods -
Essays and Scholarship
A Standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency
Proposal spells out criteria that trigger transparency requirement, with ad data to be collected by government agency
By Laura Edelson , Jason Chuang , Erika Franklin Fowler , Michael M. Franz & Travis Ridout -
Deep Dive
The Worrying Expansion of the Social Media Surveillance-Industrial Complex
Knight Institute submits FOIA requests into scope and details of government contracts
By Sinclair Cook & Michael DelRossi -
Essays and Scholarship
Data and Democracy: An Introduction
Questions of data regulation are at the heart of democratic practice today, from issues of secrecy to the use of data to constitute democratic institutions themselves
By Amy Kapczynski -
Essays and Scholarship
The Keys to the Kingdom
Mathias Vermeulen on overcoming GDPR concerns to unlock access to platform data for independent researchers
By Mathias Vermeulen -
Essays and Scholarship
Transparency’s AI Problem
Artificial intelligence’s opaque processes and outcomes make it an incomplete tool for governing
By Hannah Bloch-Wehba -
Essays and Scholarship
Amplification and Its Discontents
Why regulating the reach of online content is hard
By Daphne Keller -
Essays and Scholarship
Is the Administrative State Ready for Big Data?
Exploring the accountability challenges in environmental and public health regulation
By Wendy Wagner & Martin Murillo -
Essays and Scholarship
Democracy's Data Infrastructure
The technopolitics of the U.S. census
By Dan Bouk & danah boyd -
Analysis
Clearview AI’s First Amendment Theory Threatens Privacy—and Free Speech, Too
Drawing the line around what is protected by the First Amendment is more challenging than you might think
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Event
Data and Democracy
A symposium considering how big data is changing our system of self-government
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Podcast
Data and Democracy Podcast
Audio interviews with Data and Democracy participants previewing their symposium papers
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Analysis
Concentrating on Social Meaning: Talking to Ramya Krishnan
Discussing the intersection of data privacy and the First Amendment
By Andy Fitch & Ramya Krishnan -
Deep Dive
Big Data, Access to Public Health Information, and the Rush for a Cure: An Interview with Amy Kapczynski
Assessing the data and information needed to evaluate critical health and policy decisions
By Katy Glenn Bass