Happy New Year! LGBT Technology Partnership hopes that you have had a relaxing holiday season and are entering 2015 refreshed and with renewed vigor! This year promises to be the year of all things connected with more electronics and apps synced to the Internet than ever before. Policymakers will no doubt spend a considerable amount of time in 2015 examining current regulations in an effort to keep up with an ever-changing tech landscape and make tough decisions on looming p

The report was prepared by Jessie Daniels, PhD and Mary L. Gray, PhD for the LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute Given the many societal and political challenges encountered by LGBT individuals on a daily basis, Internet and broadband technologies play a critical role for the LGBT community in all aspects of life. The LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute’s newest research project, A Vision for Inclusion: An LGBT Broadband Future, set for release on Thursday, June 26th,

In our blog post last week, we discussed the top three challenges for the LGBT community arising out of big data collection and analysis. While big data opens up new opportunities for different aspects of scientific research, the new wealth of information also poses unprecedented challenges for privacy. In the report Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) acknowledges that minority groups parti