Have you noticed an uptick of emails from companies like Slack, Google, or PayPal, announcing new privacy policies and terms and conditions? Why the sudden onslaught of updates? The answer is easy. The companies sending these notices are changing their …
Grantee Profile: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in Pretrial Detention
When Hannah Sassaman heard that the City of Philadelphia was looking to use AI to help judges determine whether someone accused of a crime should be released before trial, she was instantly worried. “I knew that any data used to …
2018 Digital Impact Grants Cohort Selected
Digital Impact has awarded nearly $200,000 in grants to five social sector organizations working to advance the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources for social good. The selected grantees represent the third cohort in the Digital Impact Grants …
Transcript, The Internet of Things: Risks and Rewards of a Connected Future
On July 11, 2018, Lucy Bernholz, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab, was joined by Robin Wilton of Internet Society, Sona Shah of Neopenda, and Amy Sample Ward of NTEN to discuss the current state of IoT among nonprofits …
Still Not Sure How to Feel about Data Privacy? These 4 Podcasts Will Help
Let’s face it. Working with data hasn’t gotten any easier since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May. While the European Union’s new regulation has put powerful enforcement mechanisms into place for the people who live …
Grantee Profile: Good Data Collaborative
Like most businesses, the nonprofit sector loves data—or desperately wants to. But Laura Walker McDonald has a blunt message for leaders, donors, policymakers, researchers and service providers who see data as the elixir to doing good. Don’t, she says, collect …
The Internet of Things: Risks and Rewards of a Connected Future
Listen to Lucy Bernholz, Robin Wilton, Sona Shah, and Amy Sample Ward discuss the current state of IoT among nonprofits and how it has sparked a new era of social impact. The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to …
These 6 Nonprofits Are Leading on Data Privacy
Two months ago, our own Lucy Bernholz alluded to an onslaught of privacy updates from providers working toward GDPR compliance. Digital Impact is following what popular web platforms are doing (and not doing) to ensure data privacy here. We also …
Have We Put Too Much Faith In Numbers?
There’s a lot of talk around measuring what matters in nonprofits. Used responsibly, data can open a world of opportunity for any purpose-driven organization. As we explored in a recent virtual roundtable, there is also evidence of how data is …
ICO Publishes Final Guidance on Consent
In May, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its final consent guidance ahead of last week’s GDPR deadline. According to the guidance, organizations don’t need to refresh all old consents, but stressed it was “important to check your processes and …
GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain
The following is an excerpt of an article published by Harvard Business Review on April 9, 2018. “For now, GDPR, which replaces previous EU mandates on data collection and use, differs significantly from U.S. law, pushing the two regions further …