Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
Throughout,…
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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ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring
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Facial recognition software leads to wrong man arrested for flashing
NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…
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Scraping the Spotify playlists of public figures
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…
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Lowe’s and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…
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Running an LLM on your laptop
When you use a chatbot with companies like Google or OpenAI, your chats…
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Facial recognition app linked with government data
For 404 Media, Joseph Cox describes an app, Mobile Fortify, that ICE officers…
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ICE to access private data from Medicaid records
For the Associated Press, Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz report:
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IRS building a system to share private data with ICE
For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…
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DOGE goes for farmers’ financial and personal data
For NPR, Jenna McLaughlin breaks down DOGE access to sensitive USDA data and…
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Airlines sell passenger flight data to Customs and Border Protection
While there are laws in the U.S. to protect some of your privacy…
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Marketplace for government agencies to buy all the personal data about Americans
For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…
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Undisclosed surveillance with facial recognition in New Orleans
For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…
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Privacy from data brokers canceled
Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would…
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Ignoring citizens’ privacy to build a centralized database and track people
DOGE is taking agency data in an effort to compile a master database…
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DOGE possibly extracted data from National Labor Relations Board, whistleblower discloses
DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what…
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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…