Publications

On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights asks: How well has America fulfilled its promise that all…

The integration of artificial intelligence into religious life from faith-based chatbot applications to robotic officiants in houses of worship is one of the most underexamined…

In the Internet’s early days, First Amendment values laid the foundation for a free and open cyberspace. For a time, there appeared to be agreement among legislators, industry,…

Surveillance capitalism is steadily extending beyond the digital sector and into the broader economy. Firms in industries as diverse as oil and gas, luxury, and mass consumer…

Arendt's “banality of evil” illuminates how large-scale harm can emerge not from exceptional malice but from thoughtless obedience to bureaucratic systems and uncritical…

Historically, product safety regulations emerge about 50 years after mass availability of a new product. Assuming 1983 as the start of mass production of digital products, we are…

Deceptive designs, often called dark patterns, are everywhere. Deceptive designs are designs of user interfaces that manipulate, confuse, disorient, or deceive individuals to make…

This paper investigates how surveillance capitalism enables a convergence of state authoritarianism and digital monopolies, posing an existential threat to fragile democracies by…

With the current political climate and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the stakes are higher than ever to advance new laws that make technology work for the people and…

Surveillance capitalism represents a new form of capitalism that converts human behavior into data for tracking, analysis, and monetization. Yet this framing obscures the deeper…