Conferences
- Commercial Spyware, Data Brokers, and More: An Overview of Surveillance Technology Markets, RightsCon, 6/2022
- New Screen Deal, Urban Tech Summit @ Cornell Tech, 11/2021
- Surveillance in the Urban Space: Civic Action & Influence for Alternatives, RightsCon, 6/2021
- The good, the bad, the extremely obtuse: a survey of government (open) data regulations and how to successfully build accountability programs in government, CSVConf, 5/2020
- An inside look at government data making (Reprise), National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), 3/2019
- An inside look at government data making, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), 3/2018
- Beyond FOIA: Brainstorming Other Ways To See What Your Government Is Up To, SRCCON, 8/2017
- Fighting Crime with Data in the US and Abroad, South by Southwest, 3/2017
- Discovering Open Data Standards, wc3 Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc), 11/2016
- Behind the curtain: What open data looks like from within the government, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), 3/2016
- Let's Work Together: How Government Data Can Be Bettered, Visualized, 10/2015
- Political Data, Visualized, 5/2015
- Your Laws, Your Data: Making Government More Open, South by Southwest, 3/2015
- AI is beyond government control by Colin Wood for StateScoop, 7/2024
- After giving wrong answers, NYC chatbot to stay online for testing by Colin Wood for StateScoop, 4/2024
- Researchers worry about data access in a Threads-ruled world by Chris Stokel-Walker for Fast Company, 7/2023
- Twitter’s Community Notes is the fiercest 2024 primary battleground by Chris Stokel-Walker for Daily Dot, 6/2023
- A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble by Khari Johnson for Wired, 3/2023
- Why federal LGBTQI+ data collection should concern state, local officials by Keely Quinlan for StateScoop, 3/2023
- Is New Orleans Trading Internet Access for Corporate Surveillance? by Nick Taber for The New Republic, 12/2021
- threesixtyCITY New Cities podcast, 10/2021
- Daily Links by Cory Doctorow for Pluralistic, 8/2021
- Unemployment Checks Are Being Held Up by a Coding Language Almost Nobody Knows by Makena Kelly for The Verge, 4/2020
- How Legal Hackers Are Changing The Legal Industry by Valentin Pivovarov for Forbes, 11/2018
- Hackers Aren't the Only Ones Defending Your Right to Federal Data by Megan Molteni for Wired, 5/2017
- Sunlight's Williams to GSA by FCW Staff for FCW, 5/2017
- Searchable Video May Bolster Government Transparency in California by Brian Heaton for techwire, 7/2014
- Ordinance requires Pittsburgh government to publish data online by Melissa Daniels for TribLIVE, 3/2014
- Listen to testimony in favor of state Open Data Policy by Andrew Zaleski for Technical.ly Baltimore, 3/2014
- Garcetti orders release of city data, but scope uncertain by Michael Finnegan and Ben Welsh for Los Angeles Times, 12/2013