Data Sharing

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

Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…

Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…

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

When the FBI switched to a new data collection system, which relies on…

Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect…

Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…

Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
“We do not…

Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…

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

The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events,…

It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…

We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…

You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…

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

Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected…

The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…