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Big Tech’s Role in Protecting Human Rights: An Interview with Malika Saada Saar
Malika Saada Saar ’92 is a human rights lawyer currently serving as YouTube’s Global Head of Human Rights who previously served as...
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Mar 20, 20233 min read


Climate Change, Technology, and the Role of Media Activism: An Interview with Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski is the founder and president of Exposure Labs. Exposure Labs focuses on creating documentaries around areas that need...
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Mar 14, 20237 min read


An Inhuman Interview
Recently, OpenAI, an AI research company, released ChatGPT, the latest in its series of text-based AI models. It was an unexpected...
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Jan 6, 20235 min read


How America’s Cashless Economy Has Punished the Homeless for Being Poor
Over the last decade, the number of individuals living in New York City homeless shelters surged as high as 50% at times. The COVID-19...
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Dec 10, 20214 min read


Dismantling Ableism: An Interview with Haben Girma
Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, is a human rights lawyer and disability rights advocate. In...
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Mar 23, 20213 min read


The Gatekeepers to Online Discourse: An Interview with Daphne Keller ’95
Daphne Keller ’95 is a law professor at Stanford University and is the director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber...
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Jan 20, 202110 min read


The Doctor is In: Applications of telehealth for rural populations
For most Americans in suburban or urban areas, a trip to the doctor is usually as innocuous as a quick 20-minute car ride. But for 20...
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Jan 8, 20214 min read


Big Ed-Tech Is Watching You: Privacy, Prejudice, and Pedagogy in Online Proctoring
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning...
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Dec 6, 20205 min read


Emojicracy: Democratizing the Emoji Committee
In June 2016, an armed shooter opened fire in a gay nightclub in Florida, bringing international prominence to two words. The first was...
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May 21, 20204 min read


Google Wants Your Health Data. You Should Give It To Them.
Tech companies know too much about us. So, it makes sense that the conversation around digital privacy revolves around keeping our...
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Dec 31, 20195 min read


Geoengineering Climate Change
Last month, an unusually optimistic development regarding climate change garnered international attention at the UN Environmental...
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Jun 11, 20195 min read


Networked Realities of Portraits: Policing through Online Databases
What happens when you are no longer the sole owner of your face? We live in a networked reality, meaning that the realities that dwell...
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Apr 22, 20196 min read


Biohacking: Brain or Body?
“Biohacking” is an evolving trend in which people change their food and lifestyle habits to take advantage of biological mechanisms and...
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Apr 22, 20193 min read
The Lonely World of Earbuds
Across six time zones, Americans sit in traffic, wait on platforms, and squeeze between strangers. We spend an average of 26.9 minutes...
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Apr 22, 20195 min read


In the Race to Build 5G Technology, the U.S. is Losing
Within the next year, major telecom companies plan to roll out technology capable of connecting the world’s billions of devices with...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Preempting the Dangers of Deepfakes
Although they may seem like novelties at first glance, “deepfakes” threaten to usher in a new era where our eyes and ears can no longer...
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Apr 20, 20193 min read


A Corporate Obsession: Why the FCC is Failing to Bridge the Digital Divide
On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Zimbabwe’s New Weapon
This past January, Zimbabwe experienced another bout of political instability as rising fuel prices drove citizens to the streets to...
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Mar 5, 20194 min read


Big Data Takes a Byte
Over half a century ago, American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Weiner stated that “information is information, not matter or...
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Jan 16, 20195 min read


Business for the Short-Term: The Chinese Anti-Protest Armament of the Venezuelan National Guard
Reports of civil unrest in Venezuela reveal a strange scene. From militarized police vehicles, giant cannons shoot water straight into...
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Jan 7, 20194 min read
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