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"Trustable Technology: The Trustable Technology project empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected products are trustworthy"

Object detection kit, scanning objects for a cleaner city

Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.

"The United States needs to invest in a new digital public sphere-a new civic infrastructure-if it hopes to sustain democratic practice and informed participation."

"As technology-especially computer, information, and Internet technology-permeates all aspects of our society, people who understand that technology need to be part of public-policy discussions. We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists. Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest." A group of academics in this field wrote that "public-interest technology refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.""

All the problems with Facebook documentated

EFF's secure messaging score card

"LEAP is a dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication. Our focus is on adapting encryption technology to make it easy to use and widely available. Like free speech, the right to whisper is an necessary precondition for a free society. Without it, civil society and political freedom become impossible. As the importance of digital communication for civic participation increases, so does the importance of the ability to digitally whisper. LEAP is devoted to making the ability to whisper available to all internet users."

Demonstration of mouse tracking on websites using JS

"Rachel Coldicutt;s talk at the 2019 publicspaces/BBC conference"

Alex Najibi's research into racial discrimination within facial recognition technology

"A proposed standard which allows websites and services to disclose information about their usage of analytics software and user tracking. "

Distributed Press is an initiative to build an open-source publishing tool for the distributed web.