Ad campaigns that manipulate searchers’ behavior are frighteningly easy for anyone to run.

The ‘Revised Common Rule’ took effect on January 21, 2019, marking the first change since 2005 to the federal regulation that governs human subjects research co

Cameron Kerry and John B. Morris argue that assigning property rights to consumer data would slow down the free flow of information online.

Students were recorded for research—and then became part of a data set that lives forever online, potentially accessible to anyone.

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Even if we can’t predict the future, we can use science fiction to think through different possibilities

In leaked audio, the home-goods retailer’s co-founder seemed surprised that his company was being forced to take a political stance.

Technology enables employers to increasingly monitor their employees. This explainer by Alexandra Mateescu and Aiha Nguyen identifies four current trends in workplace monitoring and surveillance: prediction and flagging tools; biometrics and health data; remote monitoring and time-tracking; and gamification and algorithmic management.

Virtually everything we do these days is recorded digitally. Like this, share this, pay here — all these actions are stored as data, combined, analyzed and buil

Researchers employed the surveillance footage data to test and improve facial recognition technology. The data has been linked to the Chinese government’s surveillance of ethnic minorities.

The company’s system for targeting ads is under fire for gender and ethnic bias. In some cases, the cure could be worse than the disease.

BU Law Professor Khiara M. Bridges offers a new theory for the oversight and regulation of poor mothers in The Poverty of Privacy Rights.

Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation and safety. The goal? To find out which other […]

The NYC subway saboteur gazed into the surveillance state. What looked back?

It’s publicly available information—but most people can’t really wrap their heads around the idea that their YouTube video could be used in this way.

A study on real-time facial recognition technology being used in America.

There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen...

We are proud to initiate the CIS Papers series with a fascinating exploration of humanitarian use of big data and its discontents by Sean McDonald, FrontlineSMS, in the context of utilisation of Call Detail Records for public health response during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The paper highlights the absence of a dialogue around the significant legal risks posed by the collection, use, and international transfer of personally identifiable data and humanitarian information, and the grey areas around assumptions of public good. The paper calls for a critical discussion around the experimental nature of data modeling in emergency response due to mismanagement of information has been largely emphasized to protect the contours of human rights.