Suspicions and Opinions
How Facebook sells your data; Amazon's creepy plans; Civic Hall's end of year survey; and more.
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Collective Poll: The Most Important Developments in 2018
This article is co-authored by Darshana Narayanan. Dear Civicist reader, It’s been quite a year and as this year draws to a close, we’d like to mull over, with you, the most significant developments around tech, politics and civic life in 2018. To do this we have created a virtual...
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They Know Where You’ve Been
The "location economy" revealed; bias in hiring algorithms; voter data wars; and more.
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Meaningful Groupings
NY Times covers civic tech - using government data to challenge bad NYC landlords; Francebookistan erupts; and more
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Jim Gilliam, 1977-2018
The world of tech and politics lost one of its giants Friday when Jim Gilliam, the founder of the organizing platform NationBuilder, passed away after a long illness and many battles with cancer. Jim was probably best known for a talk he gave in 2011 at Personal Democracy Forum, which...
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Meltdown
Algorithms and public school bus schedules; Why Facebook is like a nuclear reactor; and more.
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