September 2019

Collaboration with Microsoft on an Open Source Privacy Platform

We at Social Science One are excited to share the news of a major new industry-academic collaboration. This is between Microsoft, Social Science One co-chair Gary King and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science on an Open Data Differential Privacy Platform.

The goal of the project is to build an open source platform to ensure data can be shared privately, while enabling researchers across sectors including academia, government and the private sector to gain new and novel insights that can rapidly advance human knowledge....

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Social Science One Announces Access to Facebook Dataset of Publicly Shared URLs for Research

While the project to facilitate the study of Facebook data to better understand the role of social media on elections and democracy has taken longer to build the privacy-preserving tools than expected, we are now making steady progress.

We are pleased to share that Facebook has made available for research access to a new (“differentially private”) dataset through...

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