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Foreign meddling is to our politics what a fever is to tuberculosis: a mere symptom of a deeper problem.

India is attempting to create a complex new framework for data protection that will require firms to physically host user data, but they might be moving too fast.

To really prioritize user privacy would also mean to compromise an underlying business model that has been very successful

Cynthia Rudin shares her 10 minute presentation, “Please Stop Doing Explainable ML.”

A theoretical model of platform moderation, and how sites like Twitter and Facebook should think about when and why to suppress certain objectionable content

Yochai Benkler at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.

Our Cyberlaw Clinic has urged the Ninth Circuit court not to touch a lower court decision ending a corporate landlord's lawsuit accusing Airbnb of helping tenants break building…

Profiling six areas where current deployments of artificial intelligence are having an impact on human rights

A discussion on how to think about technology, politics, and media in the post-truth moment

A service providing off-grid communications services to everyday people received the grand prize at the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenge from Mozilla…

"The First Amendment is rather unique. Free speech is widely protected with very few exceptions."

New policies aim to protect the privacy and security of personal data. How can trust be strengthened in the digital economy?

Internet companies need "information fiduciaries" to ensure that the consumer's best interest is kept at heart.

"We're all so aware of AI's tremendous power as a tool for manipulating customers and citizens that there are official calls to make AI dumber"

Considerations of ethics, social responsibility, and long-term impacts of software industry products

"Facebook’s responsibilities go beyond those of any other digital platform, and yet people seem to believe it fails to cope with these responsibilities"

Harvard authors connect American politics, media, and technology in "a provocative new book"

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

The wider adoption of encrypted protocols for website delivery — HTTPS — could have uncertain long-term implications for online access to information around the world.

A look at the user interfaces of 4 different online libraries