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The following is an excerpt of an article published by Harvard Business Review on April 9, 2018. “For now, GDPR, which replaces previous EU mandates on data collection and use, differs significantly from U.S. law, pushing the two regions further apart in their approaches to regulating the digital economy. “The...

As Elena Souris and Hollie Russon Gilman at Vox write, "While online rights are coming into question, it’s worth considering how those will overlap with offline rights and civic engagement."

We are committed to transparency about data use and to protecting your right to privacy. Please read our policy before using this site. Digital Impact (digitalimpact.io) is an initiative coordinated by the Digital Civil Society Lab (“Lab,” “we,” “us,” “our”) at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford...

Facebook has pledged its commitment to transparency and accountability throughout its GDPR preparation process, but it's unclear whether it plans to make good on its promise.

Salesforce recently shared the First Four Steps to GDPR Readiness, which are meant to help facilitate compliance by removing roadblocks. In addition, the CRM platform says it intends to provide its users with “transparency and control of their customer data to accelerate compliance with regulations like the GDPR.” Meanwhile, Heroku,...

Project Overview To support civil society’s access to responsible data (RD) resources, the Good Data Collaborative completed a responsible data literature review, consultations with stakeholders (summarized in a consultation report), UX testing and redesign of ResponsibleData.io, and an initial assessment of the landscape of responsible data guidance for nonprofits. Team...

The concept of "digital civil society" has taken hold as a framework for practitioners and leaders alike. But how much of the current moment does the term convey?

With the help of Digital Impact, a Drexel University professor is developing an interactive tool that would map thousands of nonprofits in their local neighborhoods, starting with Philadelphia.

This piece was originally published on Medium. This past weekend, years of advocacy and reporting from Carole Cadwalladr, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, and Max Schrems finally got its due on the front pages of the New York Times, the Guardian, and then, well, everywhere else. Without going into the minutiae, Cambridge Analytica, a voter...

In the last few days, there has been a lot of hand wringing after Strava, a run tracking app, published a global heat map of its users’ exercise paths. As it turns out, in many of the world’s most dangerous locations, the only people using social exercise tracking apps are...