I’m a big proponent of public writing. Here are some pieces I’ve written based on my research.
On background checks on dating platforms: You Had Me at ‘Has Never Filed for Bankruptcy’, New York Times, 3/31/21
On the risks of peer-to-peer surveillance on college campuses: Don’t Make College Kids the Coronavirus Police, New York Times, 8/12/20 (with Lauren Kilgour; discussed in MarketWatch, Washington Post, The Cut, New York Times)
On transparency and science policy: How Trump’s War on Science is Borrowing From the Tobacco Industry Playbook, Washington Post, 12/13/19 (with Dave Johns)
On Ian Kerr’s legacy in law/tech scholarship: The Choice to Be Good (a review of Ian’s article Digital Locks and the Automation of Virtue), JOTWELL, 9/26/19
On privacy and cameras in nursing homes: Webcams in Nursing Home Rooms May Deter Elder Abuse—But Are They Ethical?, The Conversation, 7/24/19 (with Clara Berridge; reprinted in Chicago Tribune and elsewhere)
On tech and intimate partner abuse: No Safe Haven for Victims of Digital Abuse, Slate, 3/1/18; and How Domestic Abusers Use Smartphones to Spy on Their Partners, Vox, 5/21/18 (with Nicki Dell, Damon McCoy, and Tom Ristenpart)
On refractive surveillance and retail work: What Customer Data Collection Could Mean for Workers, Harvard Business Review, 8/31/16 (with Solon Barocas)
On the need for rigor in tech criticism: The Case for Precise Outrage, Points (Data & Society Research Institute blog), 2/2/16
On measurement and labor: The Future of Work: What Isn’t Counted Counts, Pacific Standard, 8/3/15
On the theatrics guiding user interaction with technology: Back Stage at the Machine Theater, re:form, 4/10/15 (with Tim Hwang)
On the language we use to describe technology: ‘The Cloud’ and Other Dangerous Metaphors, The Atlantic, 1/20/15 (with Tim Hwang; we talked about the piece on CBC Spark)
A little thing on motivation and productivity for How Do You Get Shit Done?, The Hairpin, 1/9/15
On anti-rape tech solutionism: Rape is Not a Data Problem, The Atlantic, 10/30/14
On trucker monitoring: To Fight Trucker Fatigue, Focus on Economics, not Electronics, Los Angeles Times, 7/15/14
On data and dating: Data-Driven Dating: How Data Are Shaping Our Most Intimate Personal Relationships, IAPP Privacy Perspectives, 12/17/13
Media Coverage
Here’s some media coverage and interviews about my research. (Coverage of individual papers can be found under Publications below the relevant paper.)
On technology and surveillance at work:
- I was interviewed by the Financial Times for “Spooks in Your Machine: Rise in WFH Monitoring Drives Dissent” (3/8/23).
- I’m quoted by Fortune in two pieces on worker surveillance and resistance (2/2/23; 7/27/23).
- My work was highlighted by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Expert Focus series on technology and the future of work (11/29/22).
- I contributed a video on AI and work to Purdue University’s Tech Ethics video series (10/27/22).
- I’m interviewed in “How Life as a Trucker Devolved Into A Dystopian Nightmare,” New York Times (3/15/22).
- I was interviewed by The Fifth Draft about trucking, law and technology, and the future of work (March 2022).
- Our work is discussed in “How HR Can Help Solve the Hiring Discrimination Crisis,” HR Technologist (3/6/20).
- I’m quoted in “Wearable Tech that Tells Drowsy Truckers It’s Time to Pull Over,” New York Times (2/6/20).
- I’m quoted in “Why the Delay in FMCSA’s Proposed HOS Changes?” Fleet Owner (8/9/19).
- My work is discussed in “Surviving Amazon,” Logic Magazine (8/3/19).
- I’m quoted in “Long-Defiant Truckers are Forced Into Conformity,” Axios (7/9/19).
- My trucker work is discussed in “Inside an Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans,” New York Times (7/3/19).
- I’m quoted in “A Gold Rush for ELD Data,” Overdrive (6/4/19).
- Our work on Uber ratings is discussed in “The Real Stars of the Internet,” New York Times (4/19/19).
- I’m quoted in “Is Your Pregnancy App Sharing Your Intimate Data with Your Boss?” Washington Post (4/10/19).
- I’m quoted in “An Invisible Rating System At Your Favorite Chain Restaurant is Costing Your Server,” BuzzFeed News (6/21/18).
- I’m quoted in “Workers Get ‘Excitement,’ Shareholders Get the Cash,” New York Times (3/12/18).
- My work is discussed in “Could Self-Driving Trucks Be Good for Truckers?” The Atlantic (2/1/18).
- I’m interviewed in “Automation is Coming for Truckers. But First, They’re Being Watched,” Vox (11/20/17).
- I’m interviewed in “The End of the Open Road,” Science Node (10/17/17).
- My work is discussed in “Robots Have Already Taken Over Our Work, But They’re Made of Flesh and Bone,” The Guardian (9/25/17).
- My work is discussed in “Basic Income in a Just Society,” Boston Review (4/30/17).
- I appeared on Fusion‘s Containers podcast (episode 8, 4/18/17).
- My work is discussed in “Do Uber Ratings Let Passengers Discriminate Against Drivers?” New Scientist (10/12/16; research with Alex Rosenblat, Solon Barocas, and Tim Hwang).
- I appeared on “Google, Facebook, Amazon…L’espion Dans la Poche,” France Culture [dubbed in French] (9/13/16).
- My work is discussed in “Duet Ex Machina,” Psychology Today (5/2/16).
- My work is discussed in “New Federal Rules Will Subject Truck Drivers to More Monitoring Than Ever,” Washington Post (12/24/15).
- I appeared on “Employee or Datapoint?” NPR Science Friday (8/21/15), also summarized in “Gamifying the Workplace: Is It Ethical?” PRI.org (9/5/15).
- My work is discussed in “The Amazon Way: Why the Data-Driven Workplace is a Nightmare,” Fusion (8/19/15).
- My work is discussed in “The Office is Watching You,” Fast Company (5/22/15).
- My work is discussed in “Managers Turn to Computer Games, Aiming for More Efficient Employees,” New York Times (3/15/15).
- My work is discussed in “Haulin’ Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance,” The Atlantic (11/18/13).
On technology and intimacy:
- My work is discussed in “To Combat Sexual Assault, Women are Resorting to Electric Shock Underwear,” WIRED (3/19/20).
- Our work is discussed in “Can Dating Apps Help Combat Racial Segregation?”, Rewire (2/4/20).
- Our work is discussed in “A Woman’s Stalker Used an App that Allowed Him to Start and Track Her Car,” Washington Post (11/6/19).
- I’m quoted in “There’s a Global Movement of Facebook Vigilantes Who Hunt Pedophiles,” Quartz (7/24/19).
- I spoke with the Guardian for their video series about femtech (6/20/19).
- I’m quoted in “Fertility Treatment Gets Less Clinical, More ‘Grammable,” WIRED (5/30/19).
- Our work is discussed in “This Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms,” WIRED (5/25/19).
- Our work is discussed in “Are the Algorithms That Power Dating Apps Racially Biased?”, WIRED UK (2/17/19).
- Our work is discussed in “What Dating Apps Are Doing to Fight Bias,” Axios (2/9/19).
- My work is discussed in “Period-Tracking Apps Are Not For Women,” Vox (11/13/18).
- Our work is discussed in “Filtering Potential Partners by Ethnicity: How Dating Apps Contribute to Racial Bias,” Chicago Tribune (10/15/18).
- I appeared on “How Technology is Turning Us into Spies,” Top of Mind, BYU Radio (9/17/18).
- I’m quoted in “Before Using Birth Control Apps, Consider Your Privacy,” WIRED (8/20/18).
- Our work is discussed in “Hundreds of Apps Can Empower Stalkers to Track Their Victims,” New York Times (5/19/18).
- I’m quoted in “What Happens When You Tell the Internet You’re Pregnant,” Jezebel (7/27/17).
- My work is discussed in “Men Can Test Their Sperm Count At Home with New Device Trak,” The Guardian (7/5/16).
- My work is discussed in “‘Fitbit for Your Period’: The Rise of Fertility Tracking,” The Guardian (3/23/16).
- My work is discussed in “When Self-Monitoring Becomes Uncomfortably Intimate,” The Guardian (2/7/16).
- I appeared on “Partner ‘Spy’ Apps Make it Easy to Snoop, But Should You?” CBC Spark (11/8/15).
On other aspects of AI ethics, tech policy, and other topics:
- My work is described in the Chronicle of Philanthropy‘s list of “33 Leaders Standing Up to Big Tech in the Age of AI” (7/31/23).
- I commented on the ethics of facial recognition in “The Ethical Questions that Haunt Facial-Recognition Research,” Nature (11/18/20).
- I’m interviewed on the Doing Translational Research podcast’s episode on “When Does Surveillance Cross a Line?” (10/15/19).
- I spoke with This Week in ML and AI about The Ethics of AI-Enabled Surveillance (6/14/19).
- Our work is discussed in “The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age,” New York Times (4/25/19).
- I’m quoted in “The Age of Menstrual Surveillance is Upon Us,” Jezebel (4/10/19).
- I’m quoted in “Why the Future of Life Insurance May Depend on Your Online Presence,” The Verge (2/7/19).
- My work is discussed in “Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford, and Others Want to Address It,” New York Times (2/12/18).
- My work on strategic uses of transparency (with Dave Johns) is discussed in “There’s No Such Thing as ‘Sound Science,'” FiveThirtyEight (12/6/17).
- My work on automated enforcement in sports (with Meg Jones) is discussed in “Before Trying Robot Judges, Let’s Learn from Robot Referees,” Popular Science (9/7/17), and “Kevin Durant Points at the Obvious Problem with Robot Refs,” The Inverse (9/22/17).
- My work on surveillance and marginalization (with Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, and Alice Marwick) is discussed in “Digital Surveillance is Class Warfare,” VICE (5/15/17).
- My work on algorithms, networks, and discrimination (with danah boyd and Alice Marwick) is discussed in “How Algorithms Can Bring Down Minorities’ Credit Scores,” The Atlantic (12/2/16).
- I appeared on “Invasion of the Algorithms,” The Agenda with Steve Paikin (3/19/15), to discuss the role of algorithms in modern life.
- My work with Matt Salganik on online surveys was discussed in “Inspired by Wikipedia, Social Scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys,” MIT Technology Review (10/10/14).