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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University proudly welcomes an extraordinary cohort of fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The cohort will embrace the three pillars of ...

From BKC Affiliate Luke Stark: "By analogizing facial recognition to plutonium, I want to add two broad points to an increasingly lively debate about the risks of facial recognition technologies.

From misogyny and homophobia, to xenophobia and racism, online hate speech has become a topic of greater concern as the Internet matures, particularly as its offline impacts become more widely known.

This module explores the basic concepts of copyright law. It provides a general introduction to the elements of copyright important to librarians. Other modules will discuss these topics in detail. “I ...

A data privacy playbook by Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, Andrew Linzer, and Susan Crawford. Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive or ...

Публичный дискурс в российской блогосфере: анализ политики и мобилизации в Рунете Download PDF (Russian). With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Berkman Center is undertaking a ...

Alex Pascal weighs in on the unlikelihood of the Trump Administration being able to pass strict youth-safety legislation in a piece for CNN. Though Pascal is skeptical about any immediate legislation, ...

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Senate Subcommittee, and Commissioners of the United States Federal Trade Commission: Thank you for focusing attention on the important issues of youth privacy and safety ...

The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world – are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our ...

December 21, 2010 Update: An adapted version of this paper, which focuses on the political aspects of the Arabic blogosphere and its role in the networked public ...