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We’re thrilled to highlight some recent updates from our fellows:

Gracen Brilmyer, now a PhD student at UCLA, has published a single authored work in one of the leading journals in archival studies, Archival Science: “Archival Assemblages: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational Model to Archival Description” and presented their work on archives, disability, and justice at a number … [Read more...]

A recent Seattle Times article discusses Microsoft’s push on Washington’s state legislators to pass a law that makes it illegal for manufacturers that use pirated software to sell goods in the US. The angle from which the discussion comes from is “[…] unfair competition that occurs when stolen or misappropriated information technology is used to manufacture products sold or offered… [Read more...]

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In June of 2018, the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group (AFOG) held a summer workshop with the theme “Algorithms are Opaque and Unfair: Now What?.” The event was organized by Berkeley I School Professors (and AFOG co-directors) Jenna Burrell and Deirdre Mulligan and postdoc Daniel Kluttz, and Allison Woodruff and Jen Gennai … [Read more...]

To view the full article I wrote about the Impact of Oracle v. Rimini on Data Professionals and the Public, please visit: http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/w231/2018/01/23/oracle-v-rimini/

Of particular interest to Data Scientists was the question of whether using “bots and scrapers” for automated collection of data was deemed a violation of the law if it violated a Terms of Service.  An important tool

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Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan and PhD student (and CTSP Co-Director) Daniel Griffin have an op-ed in The Guardian considering how Google might consider its human rights obligations in the face of state censorship demands: If Google goes to China, will it tell the truth about Tiananmen Square? The op-ed advances a line of argument developed in a recent article of… [Read more...]

Dr. Blumenstock’s article, “Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development,” was published in the journal Nature… [Read more...]

Prof. Blumenstock was named as a 2018 Hellman Fellow for his project, “Evaluating Community Cellular Networks: How Does Mobile Connectivity Affect Isolated Communities?”… [Read more...]

Dr. Blumenstock’s paper, “Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data“, was published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings… [Read more...]

Post written by: Zoe Kahn and Emma Lurie  On February 24th, the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group (AFOG) hosted Madeleine Clare Elish, who leads the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data and Society. Elish shared two papers, “The Human Body is a Black Box”: Supporting Clinical Decision-Making with Deep Learning as well as an early draft … [Read more...]