Items tagged ‘big-data’
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Reflecting on The Responsive City
Susan Crawford and Stephen Goldsmith's new book highlights many interesting case studies and raises new questions around the ecosystem of people, place and technology.
New America’s Open Technology Institute and Civic Innovation project hosted Harvard professors Susan Crawford and Stephen Goldsmith to discuss thei... - policy paper | October 27, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
Data and Discrimination
Collected Essays
Despite significant political and cultural transformations since the Civil Rights movement and other social upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies,... -
OTI Urges FTC to Address Effects of Big Data Technologies on Underserved Communities
Last week, New America’s Open Technology Institute urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to confront the challenges of determining the effects o... -
Privacy Groups Submit Comments to the NTIA on Metadata Privacy Protections
Yesterday, OTI joined a coalition of public interest organizations, including Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and Free Press in submitting comments... -
OTI Convenes Researchers to Discuss Data and Discrimination
Building on its work on privacy, civil rights, and social justice, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute will host a research conv... -
OTI to White House Internet Surveillance is the Biggest Big Data Issue of All
Today, New America's Open Technology Institute submitted comments to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, the office that's b... -
Civil Rights in the Age of Big Data
Digital information about who we are and what we do is the currency of our digital economy and the substrate of our digital society. As the flow of... -
Pervasive surveillance, individual freedoms, and collective justice
The problem of pervasive surveillance technologies drums up passionate defenses of individual freedom and civil liberties, but what about collectiv... -
Data Profiling and Social Justice -- Remarks prepared for Eyebeam's “PRISM Breakup”
Presentation by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at Open Technology Institute, at PRISM Breakup in New York City, Saturday, October 5...