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Tag Archives: Big Data

How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe

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By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]

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Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities

25 January 2022by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]

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How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police

20 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]

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Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

21 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online

29 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Privacy is Power

21 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Carissa Véliz Aeon Imagine having a master key for your life. A key or password that gives access to the front door to your home, your bedroom, your diary, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Life Without the Tech Giants

28 February 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet

5 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Thomas Beller The New Yorker Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing history to […]

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ISIS and the Social Media War

30 March 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Predicting Future Crime

4 February 2016by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Predicting crime has always been part of police work; any beat cop can tell you that a particularly dark street corner is vulnerable to […]

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