Digital Life Initiative | Ethics | Policy | Politics | Quality of Life SEPTEMBER 2020 |
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Director's Welcome By Helen Nissenbaum We are excited to launch the DLI Dispatch, a monthly newsletter that keeps you updated on the research, people, events, and activities of our DLI Cornell Tech community. In this challenging time of physical separation, we hope this newsletter will serve as a virtual convening space for those of us with a shared interest in ethics and quality of life in digital societies. In this – our first issue — we are pleased to introduce new members of the DLI Community. Postdoc Researchers: Ero Balsa, Meg Young, & Maggie Jack. Doctoral Fellows: Yan Ji, Anthony Poon, Samar Sabie, Congzheng Song, & Amy B.Z. Zhang. They will be joining our illustrious group of returning postdocs, Lee McGuigan, Ido Sivan-Sevilla, Salome Viljoen & MC Forelle (Cornell Presidential Doctoral Fellow).
Wishing you well for the new semester! |
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THIS MONTH Digital Life Seminar The DLI Seminar continues this month in its new time slot, Wednesday, 12.00 - 1.15pm, with the familiar format of presentation followed by Q&A. We’d love you to join us via Zoom > Sep 16 | Joseph Turow Sep 23 | Cory Doctorow Sep 30 | Emma Pierson MORE INFO RELATED EVENT Sep 22 | Contextual Integrity of Contact Tracing MORE INFO TWITTER @dlicornelltech |
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JACOBIN Privacy Versus Health Is a False Trade-Off Co-authored by DLI Postdoctoral Fellows Jake Goldenfein and Salome Viljoen, and AI Now's Ben Green. As tech firms team up with governments to fight the coronavirus pandemic, we’re being asked to accept a trade-off between our digital privacy and our health. It’s a false choice: we can achieve the public health benefits of data without accepting abusive and illicit surveillance. READ MORE |
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TECHSTREAM How to Combat Online Voter Suppression By Yaël Eisenstat, DLI Visiting Fellow Amid a 2018 civil-rights audit of the company, Facebook came under pressure to consider a novel set of questions about its role in politics: What does voter suppression look like on social media? And, in the absence of U.S. legislation on the subject, should the company set the rules to ensure that voter suppression does not occur, in any form and at any level, in the digital world? READ MORE |
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BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL What Is It About Location Co-authored by DLI Director Helen Nissenbaum, and Kirsten Martin. The study examines how the order in which users visit 15 major health, education and news sites affects the way third-party trackers follow them around the internet. Although the health sites may have fewer trackers than other types of sites, the researchers found, those trackers are more persistent in following page visitors. READ MORE |
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CORNELL CHRONICLE Study: Online Trackers Follow Health Site Visitors Featuring research of DLI Postdoctoral Fellow, Ido Sivan-Sevilla, DLI Director Helen Nissenbaum, and Cornell Tech Master's Students Wenyi The study examines how the order in which users visit 15 major health, education and news sites affects the way third-party trackers follow them around the internet. Although the health sites may have fewer trackers than other types of sites, the researchers found, those trackers are more persistent in following page visitors. READ MORE |
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Unaccounted Privacy Violation:
A Comparative Analysis of Persistent Identification of Users Across Social Contexts By DLI Postdoctoral Fellow, Ido Sivan-Sevilla, DLI Director Helen Nissenbaum, and Cornell Tech Master's Students Wenyi DLI was excited to showcase its latest research collaboration at the Federal Trade Commission's annual PrivacyCon on July 21, 2020. Postdoctoral Fellow Ido Sivan-Sevilla teamed-up with Cornell Tech Masters students, Wenyi Chu and Xiaoyu Liang, to develop a contextual understanding of online tracking. READ MORE |
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SAGE JOURNALS Contesting Algorithms: Restoring the Public Interest in Content Filtering by Artificial Intelligence By Niva Elkin Koren / University of Haifa Following her presentation at the Digital Life Seminar in 2019, Professor Niva Elkin Koren has released an article that proposes how to introduce friction intentionally within the dominant removal systems governed by artificial intelligence. READ MORE |
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DLI CRITICAL REFLECTIONS Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure – Google Scholar and Academic Autonomy By Jake Goldenfein (DLI '18-20), Sebastian Benthall (DLI '18-19), Daniel Griffin (UC Berkeley) and Eran Toch (DLI '18-19) Jake Goldenfein, Sebastian Benthall and Eran Toch have partnered with DLI Seminar speaker Daniel Griffin to study Google Scholar and its growing centrality in academic search, evaluative bibliometrics, and scholar profiling. READ MORE |
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OTHER RESOURCES Good Code Podcast Produced by Chine Labbé READ MORE Critical Reflections Analytical commentary & research READ MORE Student Posts Critical reviews of the Digital Life Seminar READ MORE More DLI Info Jessie Taft (jgt43@cornell.edu) Michael Byrne (mjb556@cornell.edu) @dlicornelltech DLI WEBSITE |
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