"A chapter in the book compiled by data artist [D&S fellow] Ingrid Burrington is comprised of 20 pages listing objects pulled from the Pentagon’s 1033 program—which has supplied military hardware to local police for decades... Read on Vice

(CC BY 2.0-licensed photo by floeschie.) Data & Society is currently looking to assemble its 2015 class of fellows! The fellowship program brings together an eclectic network of researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, poli... Read more

(CC BY 2.0-licensed photo by Emilian Robert Vicol.) We are excited to announce today that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will be supporting a two-year initiative at Data & Society to better understand inte... Read more

(This event summary is crossposted at Global Pulse and the engine room.) On July 24th, approximately 30 experts from private sector, academia, civil society, law, and philanthropy convened in New York for a Responsible Data ... Read more

D&S Artist-in-Residence Ingrid Burrington presented her work analyzing the infrastructure of the internet at The Conference. "Infrastructure is only something you notice when it stops working." Internet is more than... Read on The Conference

In this letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute is joined by Data & Society and Solon Barocas, an independent researcher, in asking the FTC to address the ethical pro... Read more

The Data & Society Research Institute is pleased to announce its inaugural class of fellows. Beginning this summer we’ll be joined by an eclectic cast of researchers and practitioners working on a bunch of thorny and interestin... Read more

The White House concluded its 90-day review of big data and privacy today with the release of Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values. Led by White House Counselor John Podesta, the big data review heard from acad... Read more

Data & Society has concluded its Call for Fellows for 2014-15. Meet our inaugural class here. Please subscribe to our mailing list or come back in the fall for the next call. Data & Society is currently looking to asse... Read more