projects
We create, develop, and provide
technologies that protect individual rights and improve people’s lives.
Public Interest Tech Lab projects include:
Public Interest Tech Lab projects include:
A platform that gives people the opportunity to control their own personal
data from apps and web services.
A platform that allows users, such as journalists, government officials, and researchers, to register and
verify the
authenticity of original media content, detecting any modifications--such as deepfakes--through automated
comparison.
An app designed to leverage technology in order to cultivate fun, exciting, and new opportunities to be
physically
active at the university level.
An app that monitors a person’s voter registration and alerts
if attention is
needed.
An online collection of internal Facebook documents
designed to facilitate collaborative curation and research.
An app that allows people to communicate using preformatted messages to others who are nearby.
A program that used sensors to track mobile devices within 6
feet of each
other for
privacy-preserving
COVID-19 contact tracing.
A program that creates and assesses technologies, policies and data so that
society can share data freely with
guarantees of privacy protection.
An interactive map that allows quick, accurate and highly interactive
analysis on live census response rates. Census
Tracker is designed to demonstrate demographic impacts on census response rates in each community
and provide an easy to
use tool for users of any background.