A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
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Finding a troll’s identity
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Save recipes to your email
Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…
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Directory of date-me docs
Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…
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Oddly specific ad profiles
Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
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NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
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Data warehouse at the supermarket
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
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Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue
TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
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Border enforcement data collection
Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
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Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos
Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…
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Images behind the generated images from Stable Diffusion
People have been having fun with the text-to-image generators lately. Enter a description,…
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Incomplete crime data
When the FBI switched to a new data collection system, which relies on…
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Where the data from your car flows
Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect…
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Period trackers and legal implications
Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…
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Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how their data is used internally
Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
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Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking
Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…
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Tax services want your data
Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…
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Recontextualized media
The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events,…
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Visual forensics to spot fake videos and photos
It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…
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Family safety app sells location data to third parties
Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
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A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse
We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…