Tag: Sweeney

  • Nation & World

    Voting-roll vulnerability

    Online attackers may be able to purchase enough personal information to alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, a new study says.

    7 minutes
    Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, Department of Government Latanya Sweeney
  • Nation & World

    Seeking fairness in ads

    Latanya Sweeney, Harvard professor of government and technology in residence, wants to add a new factor to the weighting Google uses when delivering online ads, one that measures bias. In a new paper, she describes how such a calculation could be built into the ad-delivery algorithm Google uses.

    4 minutes