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NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard

Data Sharing / CDC, coronavirus, New York Times

After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
Data warehouse at the supermarket

Data Sharing / Albertsons, grocery, Kroger, privacy, The Markup

Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue

Data Sharing / notkahnjunior, privacy, TikTok

TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
Border enforcement data collection

Data Sharing / government, privacy, Washington Post

Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos

Data Sharing / AI, Dries Depoorter, Instagram, privacy, surveillance

Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…
Images behind the generated images from Stable Diffusion

Data Sharing / AI, Andy Baio, Simon Willison, Stable Diffusion

People have been having fun with the text-to-image generators lately. Enter a description,…
Incomplete crime data

Data Sharing / FBI, Marshall Project, report

When the FBI switched to a new data collection system, which relies on…
Where the data from your car flows

Data Sharing / car, privacy, The Markup

Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect…
Period trackers and legal implications

Data Sharing / period, privacy

Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…
Facebook doesn’t seem to fully know how their data is used internally

Data Sharing / facebook, Motherboard, privacy

Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
“We do not…
Tracking the CIA to demo phone tracking

Data Sharing / Intercept, privacy

Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…
Tax services want your data

Data Sharing / privacy, taxes, Washington Post

Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…
Recontextualized media

Data Sharing / Media Manipulation Casebook, misinformation, Russia, social media, Ukraine

The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events,…
Visual forensics to spot fake videos and photos

Data Sharing / accuracy, journalism, misinformation, Washington Post

It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…
Family safety app sells location data to third parties

Data Sharing / Life360, privacy, The Markup

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse

Data Sharing / Financial Times, privacy, short film

We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…
U.S. military buys location data from apps

Data Sharing / government, Joseph Cox, location, mobile, Motherboard, privacy

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…
Student surveillance and online proctoring

Data Sharing / education, privacy, surveillance, testing, Washington Post

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…
DIY satellite ground station to receive images from NOAA

Data Sharing / NOAA, satellite imagery

You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…
Hidden trackers on your phone

Data Sharing / mobile, privacy, recode

Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its…

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