June 20, 2020
Unmasking Racial Inequality Amid COVID-19
Police surveillance amid the pandemic underscores discriminatory policies against Black Americans.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
May 30, 2020
Who Watches the Watchers?
MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”
April 24, 2020
Creating a New Global Standard for Privacy and Location Sharing
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
February 11, 2020
Location Privacy: How Protected Are We?
Public Lab is developing a set of tools based on “location blurring,” a new system that would mitigate the abuse of big tech surveillance.
October 24, 2019
Infusing Startups With Ethics That Go Along With Profits
ITEGA’s Bill Densmore introduces three new efforts to orient both investors and entrepreneurs around ethics, data privacy, and transparency principles.
June 27, 2019
GDPR One Year Later, Part 3
Data experts predict the future of practice, legislation, and advocacy as the EU data regulation hits home.
June 21, 2019
GDPR One Year Later, Part 2
Philanthropy data experts connect current practices to challenges brought about by the EU data regulation.
June 19, 2019
GDPR One Year Later, Part 1
Digital Impact’s Heather Noelle Robinson and Chris Delatorre call on data experts to reflect on the first 12 months of the EU data regulation.
May 1, 2019
To Really Protect Our Privacy, Let’s Put Some Numbers on It
Tracy Ann Kosa, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, discusses how and why we need to measure data privacy.
April 23, 2019
Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge
“Researchers, companies, and governments holding data face a fundamental tension between risk to respondents and benefits to science.”