As government technology increasingly mediates people’s access to essential services – and impacts their rights – technology purchasing has never been more high stakes. Yet government technology decision-making processes rarely feature robust public input. This report argues that such input is essential, and that the most strategically important time to elicit it is before a...

Employee health and wellness benefits in the United States have surged in popularity over the past half-century, with proponents arguing that when employers offer wellness benefits, everyone wins. In this report, the authors explore how employee wellness has been promoted in the United States through public policies and government support, and how this has led...

This report provides a window into the working lives of hackers who participate in “bug bounty” programs—programs that hire hackers to discover and report bugs or other vulnerabilities in their systems.

The implementation of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) systems highlights the risks of uncritical adoption of data-centric technologies in the provision of public services. This policy brief describes the harms that EVV and—technologies like it—create, and the stakes of continued inaction by federal and state governments.

This report argues that the surveillance of home care workers through a mobile app called Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) erodes the quality of personal care and offloads significant, unacknowledged burdens onto workers and service recipients.