DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what…
privacy
When data is flowing, it’s important we keep watch on who has access to our identities, activities, and the things and people we love.
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DOGE possibly extracted data from National Labor Relations Board, whistleblower discloses
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23andMe files for bankruptcy
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
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Geolocating photos automatically
GeoSpy is an AI tool that geolocates outdoor photos. It’s currently pitched as…
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Military location data that anyone can buy legally
For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…
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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect
In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was…
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Finding a troll’s identity
A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
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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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A portrait of your stolen identity in data breaches
You’ve probably heard about big data breaches over the years. They’re in the…
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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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Luxury surveillance
Chris Gilliard, for The Atlantic, describes self-surveillance that people pay for in exchange…
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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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Tracked while reading about being tracked at work
While reading this NYT article, by Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, on the…
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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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Unregulated location data industry
For The Markup, continuing their reports on data privacy, Alfred Ng and Jon…