Earlier this year, Sean Martin McDonald, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, proposed the Data Review Board as a way forward for digital data governance, a model he described as an “independent, fiduciary governance of third-party …
Data Review Boards: Facebook, Data Governance, and Trusts in Practice
This piece was originally published on Medium. This past weekend, years of advocacy and reporting from Carole Cadwalladr, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, and Max Schrems finally got its due on the front pages of the New York Times, the Guardian, and then, well, everywhere …
Strava, Contracts, and Our Data Stockholm Syndrome
In the last few days, there has been a lot of hand wringing after Strava, a run tracking app, published a global heat map of its users’ exercise paths. As it turns out, in many of the world’s most dangerous …
Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home
A little over a year ago, we set out to do something ambitious. We set out to build environmental sensors that would bridge an under-recognized digital divide: the environmental data divide. Most sensors require Internet signal to report data, as …