Science Magazine Releases Special Issue on Digital Privacy

Yesterday, January 29th, Science Magazine released a new Special Issue entitled The End of Privacy. In line with its theme, the edition will be made available online at no cost for the first week following publication. Take this chance to look through! For scientists, the vast amounts of data that people shed every…

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

Videos and presentations from the book launch of “Privacy, Big Data and the Public Good” (Lane, J., Stodden, V., Bender, S. & Nissenbaum, H. (Eds)) are now available online. Hosted by the NYU Center for Urban Science on July 16, the event included several panels with the book’s editors and a number of the authors. Overview of the book: Massive amounts of new data about people,…

Research Transparency & Open Knowledge: Lessons from #OKFest14

By Guillaume Kroll (CEGA) Over a thousand scientists, activists, and civil society representatives from over 60 countries gathered in Berlin last week for the 2014 Open Knowledge Festival (OKFest14). The Festival is the flagship event of the Open Knowledge Foundation, an international nonprofit promoting open tools, data, and information for the positive transformation of society. It’s a…

Research Transparency & Open Knowledge: Lessons from #OKFest14

By Guillaume Kroll (CEGA) Over a thousand scientists, activists, and civil society representatives from over 60 countries gathered in Berlin last week for the 2014 Open Knowledge Festival (OKFest14). The Festival is the flagship event of the Open Knowledge Foundation, an international nonprofit promoting open tools, data, and information for the positive transformation of society. It’s a…

The Ethics of Using and Sharing Data for Development Programming (5/22 @ NYC)

The Responsible Data Forum is a new effort to map the ethical, legal, privacy and security challenges surrounding the increased use and sharing of data in development programming. The Forum aims to explore the ways in which these challenges are experienced in project design and implementation, as well as when project data is…

A Discussion with Victoria Stodden (April 3 — Washington, DC)

The AAAS FIRE and Big Data Affinity groups are co-hosting an informal discussion with Victoria Stodden (Columbia University, Department of Statistics) on Thursday April 3 at 6pm in the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC. The debate will focus on the role of data and software in scientific research and funding.…