Technology in the Public Interest
Technology in the Public Interest News
"An Airforce Combat Veteran Breached the Senate"
The New Yorker
January 9, 2021
"New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring"
Wired
January 8, 2021
"Insurrection Could Be a Turning Point for Social Media"
Marketplace
January 7, 2021
"Why 2020 Was a Pivotal, Contradictory Year for Facial Recognition"
Technology Review
December 29, 2020
Casebook to Combat Disinformation
Grantee Publications
December 8, 2020
"The ‘Coded Bias’ Documentary is ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for Big Tech Algorithms"
Fast Company
November 12, 2020
"‘Coded Bias’ Review: When the Bots Are Racist"
The New York Times
November 11, 2020
Revealing Bias in ‘Unbiased’ Algorithms
Grantee Stories
October 28, 2020
Principles to Protect Civil Rights in a Technological Era
Grantee News
October 26, 2020
Law Enforcement’s Broad Searches of Mobile Phones
Grantee Publications
October 22, 2020
"I Spoke to a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories and I’m Scared for Us"
The New York Times
October 21, 2020
"The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone"
The New York Times
October 21, 2020
Covering AI and Surveillance Technology
Grantee News
October 21, 2020
Technology in the Public Interest Experts List
Grantee News
October 7, 2020
"The Cruel New Era of Data-Driven Deportation"
Slate
September 22, 2020
Potential of Regulation for Biometric Tech
Grantee Publications
September 15, 2020
"It's Time for a Reckoning About This Foundational Piece of Police"
Slate
September 11, 2020
"Meet This Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better"
Wired
September 9, 2020
"MacArthur Foundation Invests $1.6M in Equitable COVID Tech"
GovTech
September 8, 2020
"Data-Informed Predictive Policing Was Heralded as Less Biased. Is It?"
Gizmodo
August 21, 2020
"This Map Lets You Report Landlords Using Tech to Screw Over Tenants"
Vice
August 18, 2020
"British Police to Trial Facial Recognition System That Detects Your Mood"
The Next Web
August 17, 2020
"Using Data for Public Good in Fight for Racial Equity"
Tech Target
August 12, 2020
"The Changes AI Will Bring"
The Wall Street Journal
August 10, 2020
"Meet the Computer Scientist and Activist Who Got Big Tech to Stand Down"
Fast Company
August 4, 2020
Ensuring COVID-19 Tech Responses Advance Equity, Protect Civil Rights and Liberties
Press Release
July 30, 2020
"The Lawfare Podcast: Jillian C. York on Free Expression on a Broken Internet"
Lawfare
July 30, 2020
"How Is the Use of Predictive Analytics in the Criminal Justice System Negatively Impacting Black Defendants?"
The Startup
July 28, 2020
"Predictive Policing Algorithms Are Racist. They Need to Be Dismantled."
Technology Review
July 17, 2020
"More Public Data Can Help Hold Police Accountable, Experts Say — But More Must Be Done to Create Systemic Change"
Block Club Chicago
July 17, 2020
"The Industry Where Property Meets Tech Was Worth $14 Billion Last Year, But Activists Warn It Increases Housing Discrimination"
Reuters
July 15, 2020
"What a Black Tech Movement Might Look Like"
Venture Beat
July 14, 2020
"AI Is Biased: Why it Matters and How to Fix Algorithmic Injustice"
Policy Punchline
July 9, 2020
"Tech Companies Are Still Helping Police Scan Your Face"
KITV
July 3, 2020
"COVID Tracing App Could Pose Greater Risk to Minority Communities"
WENY
June 30, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Risk Assessment
Grantee Publications
June 25, 2020
"Visionaries: Inioluwa Deborah Raji"
Technology Review
June 23, 2020
"Facial Recognition"
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
June 15, 2020
"The Two-Year Fight to Stop Amazon from Selling Face Recognition to the Police"
Technology Review
June 15, 2020
"Apple, Google Release Technology for Pandemic Apps"
Associated Press
May 20, 2020
"COVID-19 Crisis Capitalism Comes to Real Estate"
Boston Review
May 7, 2020
"WeChat Users Outside China Face Surveillance While Training Censorship Algorithms"
Washington Post
May 7, 2020
"Cellphone Monitoring Is Spreading with the Coronavirus. So Is an Uneasy Tolerance of Surveillance."
The Washington Post
May 2, 2020
"We Can’t Let Tech Companies Use Algorithms to Police Us After COVID-19"
OpenDemocracy
April 24, 2020
"Uber Drivers Are Being Forced to Choose Between Risking COVID-19 or Starvation"
The Guardian
March 25, 2020
"Jack Dorsey’s Push to Clean Up Twitter Stalls, Researchers Say"
The Wall Street Journal
March 15, 2020
Censoring Coronavirus Information in China
Grantee Publications
March 10, 2020
"The Ever-Increasing Surveillance State"
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
March 2, 2020
A Shared Understanding of Facial Recognition
Grantee Publications
February 26, 2020
"CPD Using Controversial Facial Recognition Program That Scans Billions of Photos from Facebook, Other Sites"
Chicago Sun-Times
January 29, 2020
Calls to Halt Harmful AI
Grantee Publications
December 17, 2019
"Emotion-Detecting Tech Should Be Restricted By Law - AI Now"
BBC
December 12, 2019
"Researchers Criticize AI Software That Predicts Emotions"
Reuters
December 12, 2019
"Facebook's Ad Tools Subsidize Partisanship, Research Shows, and Campaigns May Not Even Know It."
Washington Post
December 10, 2019
"Data for Black Lives"
Forbes
December 4, 2019
Mapping the Systems of Virtual Assistants
Grantee Publications
November 26, 2019
"Imagine Being on Trial. With Exonerating Evidence Trapped on Your Phone."
The New York Times
November 22, 2019
"Design Award for Fresh Look at Smart Speakers"
BBC
November 21, 2019
"Dealing With Bias in Artificial Intelligence"
The New York Times
November 19, 2019
"Opinion: AI For Good Is Often Bad"
Wired
November 18, 2019
"Time 100 Next: Joy Buolamwini"
Time
November 13, 2019
"These Black Women Are Fighting For Justice In A World Of Biased Algorithms"
Essence
November 12, 2019
"WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program"
The New York Times
October 29, 2019
"Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video"
Wired
October 6, 2019
"‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?"
The New York Times
September 20, 2019
"Who Does AI Think You Are? This Groundbreaking New Exhibit Will Show You"
Fast Company
September 12, 2019
"‘It's Techno-Racism’: Detroit Is Quietly Using Facial Recognition to Make Arrests"
The Guardian
August 17, 2019
"The Markup, a Tech News Site, Reinstalls Its Fired Editor as Part of a Fresh Start"
The New York Times
August 6, 2019
Congressional Testimony on Societal Impact of AI
Grantee News
July 9, 2019
"FBI, ICE Find State Driver’s License Photos Are a Gold Mine For Facial-Recognition Searches"
The Washington Post
July 7, 2019
"ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases"
The New York Times
July 7, 2019
Risks of Face Surveillance in American Cities
Grantee Publications
May 22, 2019
"Facial Recognition: Dawn of Dystopia, or Just the New Fingerprint?"
The New York Times
May 18, 2019
"Some U.S. Cities Are Moving into Real-Time Facial Surveillance"
Wired
May 17, 2019
Ranking Companies on Digital Rights
Grantee Publications
May 16, 2019
"WhatsApp Reveals Major Security Flaw That Could Let Hackers Access Phones"
CNN
May 14, 2019
"WhatsApp Rushes to Fix Security Flaw Exposed in Hacking of Lawyer’s Phone"
The New York Times
May 13, 2019
"All the Ways Hiring Algorithms Can Introduce Bias"
Harvard Business Review
May 6, 2019
"Governments Are Deploying Spyware on Killers, Drug Lords – And Journalists"
The Globe and Mail
May 3, 2019
"Two Women Led a Protest at Google. Is Google Retaliating Against Them Now?"
The Washington Post
April 27, 2019
"The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age"
The New York Times
April 25, 2019
Lack of Diversity Perpetuates Bias in AI
Grantee Publications
April 23, 2019
"We Built a (Legal) Facial Recognition Machine for $60"
The New York Times
April 16, 2019
"Congress Wants to Protect You from Biased Algorithms, Deepfakes, and Other Bad AI"
MIT Technology Review
April 15, 2019
"One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority"
The New York Times
April 14, 2019
"How Will AI Change Your Life? AI Now Institute Founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker Explain."
recode
April 8, 2019
"CEO of Israeli Spyware-Maker NSO on Fighting Terror, Khashoggi Murder, and Saudi Arabia"
60 Minutes
March 24, 2019
"A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments"
The New York Times
March 21, 2019
"Courts and Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Reduce Bias, But Some Argue It'll Make the Problem Worse"
CNBC
March 17, 2019
"Facial Recognition's 'Dirty Little Secret': Millions of Online Photos Scraped Without Consent"
NBC News
March 12, 2019
"Top Universities Join to Push ‘Public Interest Technology’"
The New York Times
March 11, 2019
"Police Across the US Are Training Crime-Predicting AIs on Falsified Data"
MIT Technology Review
February 13, 2019
"We Should Be Able to Take Facebook to Court"
The New York Times
January 6, 2019
AI and Equity in Hiring
Grantee Publications
December 13, 2018
"Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?"
The New Yorker
December 12, 2018
AI Report Recommends Stronger Ethical Safeguards
Grantee Publications
December 12, 2018
"Researchers Call for Regulation of Facial Recognition, AI Tools"
Bloomberg
December 6, 2018
"Some Artificial Intelligence Should Be Regulated, Research Group Says"
Fortune
December 6, 2018
"Why AI Needs to Reflect Society"
Forbes
November 29, 2018
"A Journalist Was Killed in Mexico. Then His Colleagues Were Hacked."
The New York Times
November 27, 2018
"The New Radicalization of the Internet"
The New York Times
November 24, 2018
"Wanted: The ‘Perfect Babysitter.’ Must Pass AI Scan for Respect and Attitude."
The Washington Post
November 23, 2018
Network Connections Driving Extremism
Grantee Publications
September 29, 2018
"Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube"
NPR
September 23, 2018
"Bots of the Internet, Reveal Yourselves!"
The New York Times
July 16, 2018
Strengthening the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
From the field
July 5, 2018
"In Ruling on Cellphone Location Data, Supreme Court Makes Statement on Digital Privacy"
The New York Times
June 25, 2018
"Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair"
Nature
June 20, 2018
"Facial Recognition Threatens Our Fundamental Rights"
The Washington Post
June 19, 2018
"Protecting Privacy Is a Civil Rights Issue"
The New York Times
June 6, 2018
"Blocked by Trump: Twitter Users Sound Off on Being Barred"
The New York Times
May 23, 2018
"ICE Just Abandoned Its Dream of ‘Extreme Vetting’ Software That Could Predict Whether a Foreign Visitor Would Become a Terrorist"
Washington Post
May 17, 2018
"The Data Scientist Helping to Create Ethical Robots"
Bloomberg
May 15, 2018
Refiguring the Future, A NetGain Event
event
May 3, 2018
"Refiguring The Future"
Brooklyn Rain
May 1, 2018
Study Finds Big Tech Lacks Transparency on Privacy and Online Speech
Publication
April 26, 2018
Center to Educate, Litigate Privacy Challenges in a Digital Age
From the field
April 26, 2018
"What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell Congress"
Politico Magazine
April 16, 2018
Video: Refiguring the Future - A Netgain Event
Perspectives
April 6, 2018
"Self-Driving Car Deaths Raise The Question: Is Society Ready For Us To Take Our Hands Off The Wheel?"
Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2018
"Did This American Tech Help Turkey Spy In Syria?"
Forbes
March 13, 2018
"Judge to Trump: Muting, Not Blocking Followers, May End Suit"
Associated Press
March 9, 2018
"Is Trump’s Twitter Behavior Constitutional? A Court Will Decide."
Washington Post
March 14, 2018
"When Will Americans Be Angry Enough To Demand Honesty About Algorithms?"
Fast Company
March 13, 2018
Facial Scans at U.S. Airports Violate Americans’ Privacy, Report Says
Publication
January 5, 2018
"How a Radio Shack Robbery Could Spur a New Era in Digital Privacy"
The New York Times
November 27, 2017
"Why is AI Still Waiting for Its Ethics Transplant"
Wired
March 13, 2018
Study Points to Security Weaknesses in Online Voter Registration Systems
Publication
September 8, 2017
Helping Grantmakers Understand Digital Security Threats
Publication
June 7, 2017
"Q & A With Citizen Lab on “Tainted Leaks” and Russia’s Disinformation Campaign"
Just Security
May 30, 2017
Identifying Cyberespionage and Disinformation in Russia
Publication
May 26, 2017
Ranking Tech Companies on Digital Rights
Publication
March 30, 2017
Guide Helps Grantmakers Understand Digital Security Threats
Perspectives
March 8, 2017
Cyber-espionage Targets Public Health Advocates in Mexico
Publication
February 13, 2017
"How The Citizen Lab Polices the World's Digital Spies"
The Christian Science Monitor
December 22, 2016
Understanding the Risks of Data at Scale
Publication
October 7, 2016
Software Used to Censor Internet in Bahrain
Publication
September 22, 2016
Investigation Finds Spyware Sold to Governments Targets iPhones
Publication
August 25, 2016