Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes applications for its 2026 and 2026-2027 fellowships.

In a new piece for PeerJ Computer Science, Faculty Associate Samer Hassan and coauthors chronicle the history of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a non-finance application for ...

The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around ...

How are technologies being misused to undermine democratic processes? Where might we have leverage to steer things back on ...

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that the future of AI's impacts on democratic processes is unwritten, and whether the technology is used to liberate or to oppress depends largely on ...

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman casts a critical eye on OpenAI's Sora, an AI video generator. Owing to public backlash, OpenAI has opened itself up to requests from public figures to restrict the ...

The following checklist is intended to provide general guidance for organizations interested in assessing their information handling practices. Specifically, this document will help you assess your ...

Jack Cushman joins the Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, reflecting on his journey from programming to law school and on the skills that today's lawyers ought to hone to meet the moment.

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Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of ...

Ethan Zuckerman is associate professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure.

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