PRG News Roundup Dec. 4, 2019
The NBER put out a series of reports about algorithmic studies on the share of a teachers' value-added effect on their students' student achievement. NBER researchers re-did the analysis of…
PRG News Roundup Wednesday Nov. 20
The New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force released their final report this week. Some members of the task force took to Twitter after its release to raise concerns about some of the viewpoints underrepresented…
PRG News Roundup Nov. 13, 2019
According to the Intercept, the NYPD maintained until very recently a fingerprint database gathered from people charged as juveniles, in violation of state law. Microsoft has announced that it will extend California's privacy…
PRG News Roundup Nov. 6 2019
Chair of the Federal Election Commission Ellen L. Weintraub published an opinion piece in Washington Post in response to twitter's ban of political ads. Instead of a total ban, the Commissioner argues for…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 30, 2019
On Oct 24, Two U.S. senators have reintroduced legislation to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s growing practice of searching or seizing travelers' electronic devices at U.S. ports of entry, including…
PRG News Round-Up Oct. 23, 2019
Google published in Nature this morning that they demonstrated quantum supremacy. Some are hailing it as an enormous technical breakthrough. NordVPN's server was compromised and an encryption key was stolen.…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 16, 2019
As noted last week, the US/UK CLOUD Act Agreement, which enables law enforcement agencies in both countries to access digital data and evidence stored within each other’s borders, was released earlier this…
PRG News Roundup: Oct. 9, 2019
The U.S. Commerce Department placed 28 Chinese business entities on a trade blacklist in connection with the mass detention and abuse of the muslim Uighur population is Xinjiang. Among the companies hit…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 2, 2019
Apply to We Robot 2020 by October 7! Andrew Yang suggested treating data as a property right and included rights such as the right to be forgotten (Forbes). Facebook has…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 25, 2019
A recent BuzzFeed News story demonstrated the relative ease with which people can be tracked around New York City, through a cross reference of public cameras accessed via EarthCam and Instagram stories geotagged to…