As we have noted before, facial detection and facial recognition technologies are beginning to enter school settings in a number…
Regulating student data privacy – issues for policymakers
notes from ‘The Policymaker’s Guide to Student Data Privacy’ from the Future of Privacy Forum (published: April 2019) “As data…
Dealing with student data privacy – advice for schools and teachers
notes from ‘The Educator’s Guide to Student Data Privacy’ from the Future of Privacy Forum (published: May 2016) “Technology tools…
Thinking against data science – Os Keyes (2019)
Os Keyes offers a provocative assessment of “Why data science is a profound threat for queer people”. Keyes starts by…
Holding data to account – the struggles of New York City’s algorithm task force
The difficulties of establishing any form of critical oversight and scrutiny over data-driven processes is illustrated in the difficulties encountered…
Taina Bucher on relational ontology and data
In her latest book If…Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics, Taina Bucher uses the notion of ‘relational ontology’ to analyse the power…
How organisations ‘do’ data protection in practice
One of the joys of the DSS project is engaging with the different disciplines, industries and fields that come together…
