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From legislation to implementation: Exploring how to prototype privacy bills through human-centered policymaking + design

The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges
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The perfect privacy storm

New issues in privacy debate with technology and contact-tracing.
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Assessing Disease Exposure Risk With Location Histories And Protecting Privacy

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…
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Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy

Alex Berke, Michiel Bakker, Praneeth Vepakomma, Kent Larson, Alex `Sandy' Pentland. (March 31 2020). "Assessing Disease Exposure Risk with Location Data: A Proposal for Cryptographic Preservation of Privacy." Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.14412
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Family-Friendly Data Privacy + AI Activities: Interactive lessons to help kids learn and design with data privacy in mind

This is a unique time to engage and teach children about the benefits and limitations of technology.
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Clever cryptography could protect privacy in Covid-19 contact-tracing apps

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.
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WATCH: Can my phone tell if I’ve been near someone with COVID-19?

To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.
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Local governments warm to MIT coronavirus-tracking app

The app is designed to let people discover if they've crossed paths with someone who's been infected with COVID-19.
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Safe Paths: A privacy-first approach to contact tracing

A multinational team develops new tools to slow the spread of pandemics.
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Bluetooth signals from your smartphone could automate Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy

A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.
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AI + Data Privacy Activities for K-9 Students

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade slime…
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Cybersecurity Badge Day 2020: Girl Scouts of Eastern MA focuses on data privacy and tech policy

The Personal Robots team collaborated with the Girl Scouts and the EMK Institute for the US Senate to teach 60 students about data privacy.
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A new app would say if you’ve crossed paths with someone who is infected

Private Kit: Safe Paths shares information about your movements in a privacy-preserving way—and could let health officials tackle COVID-19.
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Phones could track the spread of Covid-19. Is it a good idea?

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
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5 questions on data and accountability with Julia Angwin

Read an interview with Angwin and Catherine D'Ignazio on machine bias, data privacy, and the role of journalism in creating accountability.
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How tiny startup teams handle big privacy issues

Four social-impact startups reveal how they manage privacy laws and concerns—even if they’re not required to.
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Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…
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Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late
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When politicians play web designers

Opinion: The push to ban unwanted “dark patterns” from apps and sites may also take away certain features users want.
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

In an interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Rosalind Picard discusses affective computing, privacy, diversity in tech, and more
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UNC Chapel Hill - Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Keynote Address

On May 11, 2019 Ramesh Raskar was the doctoral hooding ceremony keynote speaker at UNC Chapel Hill Commencement. He shared the vi…
Communications Futures Program
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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OPAL 4 Health

Open Algorithms (OPAL)
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Invisible Ink

Invisible Ink is a certified mail application that demonstrates the utility of the blockchain for maintaining a public ledger of transactio…
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Ethos

Ethos is a decentralized, Bitcoin-like network for storing and sharing valuable information. We provide transparency, control, and ownershi…
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Invisible Ink - Blockchain for Data Privacy

Lazarovich Amir
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Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…
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A Malicious Activity Detection System Utilizing Predictive Modeling in Complex Environments

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "A malicious activity detection system utilizing predictive modeling in complex environments." 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2014. APA
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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Center for Future Banking
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