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Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers are Essential to the Internet and How Operating Systems Are Holding Them Back

Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM

In Post Roe v. Wade Era, Mozilla Labels 18 of 25 Popular Period and Pregnancy Tracking Tech With *Privacy Not Included Warning

Despite handling volumes of personal health data, most reproductive health tracking apps have opaque privacy protection policies and no clear policy on data-sharing practices with law enforcement.

Internet Health Report 2022

An annual compilation of research and stories explaining what’s key to a healthier internet. In this edition we are narrowing our focus to artificial intelligence.

The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research

This paper examimes how and what values are encoded into machine learning.

The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics

This paper examines how recent AI ethics literature has addressed topics such as fairness and justice in the context of continued social and structural power asymmetries.

Works for me! cannot reproduce–a large scale empirical study of non-reproducible bugs

Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail Spectacularly at Privacy, Security

Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns.

Corpus Development of Kiswahili Speech Recognition Test and Evaluation sets, Preemptively Mitigating Demographic Bias Through Collaboration with Linguists

What are the characteristics of highly-selected packages? A case study on the npm ecosystem