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Techno-Policing
Technology could help make the criminal justice system more egalitarian. Technologies could reduce racially motivated police violence, racial profiling, and under-enforcement of crime in communities of color.
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Bennett Capers |
2018 |
Borders and Bits
Governments seek to regulate and access data stored outside of their traditional territorial limits. Private multinational companies that process data have become key players in shaping privacy and free speech rights.
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Jennifer Daskal |
2018 |
Ten Simple Rules for Responsible Big Data Research
Use of big data in academic and industry research is growing. Studies of human psychology, biology, and behavior must be ethical. Researchers should start by recognizing that careless use of data can be harmful.
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danah boyd, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale, Alyssa Goodman, Kate Crawford, Arvind Narayanan, Barbara Koenig, Emily Keller, Jacob Metcalf, Matthew Zook, Rachelle Hollander, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Solon Barocas |
2017 |
Cyber-Attacks–Prevention-Reactions: The Role of States and Private Actors
Cyber-attacks are a growing threat to peace and security. Private actors play a leading role in ensuring that digital technologies are secure from cyber-attacks.
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Théodore Christakis, Karine Bannelier |
2017 |
Deterring Cybercrime: Focus on Intermediaries
Cybercriminals rely on intermediary firms such as banks, and shippers to sell products and collect payments. Governments, intellectual property owners, and technology companies can police cybercriminals by policing these intermediaries, but this raises due process and fairness concerns.
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Chris Hoofnagle, Aniket Kesari, Damon McCoy |
2017 |
Scale Effects in Web Search
This study considers how learning affects competition between search engines. As learning proceeds, it tends to slow down. Could a new search engine with a better algorithm overcome a large search engine with more data?
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R. Preston McAfee, Aadharsh Kannan, Di He, Justin Rao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu |
2017 |
Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation
Traditional free speech doctrines protect speakers from state censorship. The rise of big data, algorithmic decision-making, and digital media companies alters the nature of free speech concerns.
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Jack M. Balkin |
2017 |
Soft Law: New Tools for Governing Emerging Technologies
Traditionally, nations harmonized their own regulation of new technologies with the rules of other nations through negotiation of international treaties. "Soft law" tools such as private standards and codes of conduct are less resource-intensive than treaties.
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Braden Allenby, Gary Marchant |
2017 |
The Age of Weaponized Narrative
Technology and advances in psychology make it possible for other nations and groups to use “weaponized” narratives to undermine their adversaries. Increasingly, Russia and China are using these methods against the United States.
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Braden Allenby |
2017 |
Taming the Golem: Challenges of Ethical Algorithmic Decision-Making
Any algorithm can be biased. However, policy-neutral algorithms should be distinguished from policy-directed algorithms, those purposely designed to pursue a policy agenda.
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Omer Tene, Jules Polonetsky |
2017 |