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Sep 3, 2024
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Mar 7, 2024
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Mar 25, 2024
This research brief discusses how we can better understand the impact of emerging technologies on culture. It is based on RAND research on technological innovation and cultural change in the future information environment.
The public needs rigorous and thorough health research, but individual patients should have rights over their medical information. Today they have very little.
Journal Article
Feb 12, 2024
We introduce concepts in this guide to provide a starting point for practitioners and policymakers trying to understand the current privacy technology landscape from an equity lens.
Report
Dec 11, 2023
This report is the technical documentation for a tool that tracks Chinese government–supported development finance projects that used or enabled artificial intelligence technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
The authors analyze a new project finance dataset on China's development-funded artificial intelligence (AI) export projects — adding interview-based country case studies — to better understand China's AI exports and their impact on developing countries.
Tool
The China AI Exports Database (CAIED) tracks Chinese government-supported development finance projects that utilized or enabled Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in the Global South between 2000 and 2017.
Oct 27, 2023
This paper studies the feasibility of using differentially private (DP) methods to make certain queries while preserving privacy.
Sep 13, 2023
Policymakers and cybersecurity analysts should avoid messaging that emphasizes the risk that CRQCs developed in secret could be imminent or already operational. There is already more than enough reason to upgrade our communications systems to resist attacks from quantum computers as soon as possible.
Jul 11, 2023
This paper presents an in-depth evaluation of differentially private synthetic data sets created for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's "Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge."
This article discuss the need for statisticians to become better-acquainted with disclosure avoidance methodologies, both traditional approaches and new.
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Feb 28, 2023
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RAND mathematician Mary Lee describes the wide variety of personal data collected by smart devices and applications, such as smartwatches, brain implants, and period trackers.
Feb 15, 2023
This report examines current and near-future uses of facial recognition by law enforcement and identifies the various concerns and related policy domains that could be used to guide public policy.
