Author: Ellie Vorhaben
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Data Brokers: National Security Starts With Data Security
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On March 21st, 2022, location data broker X-Mode filed a lawsuit against one of its own clients for improperly reselling data to an unauthorized third-party. This is merely the most recent case of a data broker failing to protect sensitive data, whether through data breaches—all major data brokers have been…
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Solving Public Problems: An Interview with Dr. Beth Simone Noveck
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This article was co-authored by Molly Smith and Ellie Vorhaben. Dr. Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University where she is core faculty at the Institute of Experiential AI, and director of the Burnes Family Center for Global Impact. She is the Director of The Governance Lab, a…
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Technology Amplified Disinformation, Now It Must Demonetize It
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Cameron Harris took a $5 investment and made it $22,000 in less than 3 months. No, he’s not the most impressive investor of his generation, he’s the founder of the fake news site ChristianTimesNewspaper.com. Despite voting for Trump, Cameron claims in a New York Times interview that his motivations were…
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To Reclaim a Shared Reality We Need Storytellers, Not fact-checkers
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The antidote to a lie is the truth. The cure for fabricated news stories is fact-checking. Right? Of course not. If that were true, all the fact checking done over the past five years would have effectively established a shared truth, and fabricated news stories would spread only until debunked.…
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Harris Community Action Study Suggests Ciclovía Could Bring Economic, Health, Social Benefits to Chicago
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Siobhan McDonough, Noah Berman, and Eliana Fram contributed to this piece. A Harris Community Action team, in coordination with the Chicago non-profit Equiticity, found evidence that implementing an open streets program similar to Bogota’s ciclovía could effectively encourage social integration, build healthy habits, and boost local businesses. Harris Community Action…