Inspired by companies like Clearview AI, Nextdoor, and Amazon, this case study asks students to assume the role of a high-ranking ethics-focused employee at a (fictional) neighborhood-focused social media company. It involves challenging ethical questions around how social ...

Who makes maps and who gets mapped? Using a comparative reading of three maps, this case study introduces the idea that data may be useful, but they are not neutral. Rather, they represent the interests and goals of the groups and institutions that are doing the data ...

Facial recognition technology (FRT) appears in uses from providing secure access to smartphones, to identifying criminal suspects from surveillance images as a tool of the justice system. Citizen’s rights and social justice groups, alongside the research community, have ...

Courts across the United States are using computer software to predict whether a person will commit a crime, the results of which are incorporated into bail and sentencing decisions. It is imperative that such tools be accurate and fair, but critics have charged ...