For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…
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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IRS building a system to share private data with ICE
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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…
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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…