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Study Group: Data Trusts | An Ethical Pathway to Protect the Human Rights of People Living with Criminal Convictions Impacted by Background Screening?

February 14, 2020

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on the urgent need to establish a human rights framework in criminal justice reform, which addresses mass incarceration in America.... Read more about Study Group: Data Trusts | An Ethical Pathway to Protect the Human Rights of People Living with Criminal Convictions Impacted by Background Screening?



Teaching Technology to See the Whole Person

March 5, 2020

Technology & Human Rights Fellows Laurin Leonard & Teresa Hodge explain their path to creating an algorithm that provides an inclusionary and human rights approach when applying for employment and loans.

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Remote Work Will Stress Test the Internet - and Parts Will Fail

March 18, 2020

Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, James Waldo, sits down with the Harvard Gazette to outline that although we have seen tremendous technological advances, the transition to remote work in wake of the Coronavirus pandemic will stress test the internet to limits we have not seen before.

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Big Brother Uber Is Controlling When and Where Brazilians Are Allowed to Travel

March 29, 2020

Uber is redlining low-income neighborhoods in Brazil.

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Science Will Not Come on a White Horse With a Solution

April 6, 2020

Scientists have emphasized modeling the progression of the coronavirus, but not the social consequences of the preventative measure being taken.

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Carr Center Announces Technology and Human Rights Advisory Committee and New Technology and Human Rights Fellows

May 4, 2020

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy announces its new technology advisory committee, and newest cohort of Technology and Human Rights Fellows.

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Conspiracy Theories Run Rampant Online Amid Floyd Protests

June 3, 2020

Joan Donovan advises that despite widespread misinformation individuals should continue using social media as a tool to uncover truth.... Read more about Conspiracy Theories Run Rampant Online Amid Floyd Protests



Defunding the Police Might Leave Americans More Surveilled and Less Secure

August 25, 2020

In her latest article for Foreign Policy, Carr Center Exectuive Director Sushma Raman warns that without adequate public oversight, technology in policing could result in Black people being surveilled and controlled even further.... Read more about Defunding the Police Might Leave Americans More Surveilled and Less Secure



Our Fragile Information Ecosystem

January 29, 2021

Joan Donovan–Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy—joins host Sushma Raman to discuss disinformation amidst the current political, public health, and human rights landscapes.... Read more about Our Fragile Information Ecosystem
2020 Mar 09

CANCELLED - Drafted into the Meme Wars: Disinformation in US Elections

5:30pm to 6:45pm

Location: 

Rubenstein 414-AB

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21^st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration.... Read more about CANCELLED - Drafted into the Meme Wars: Disinformation in US Elections

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