How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police
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
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. […]
How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online
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 […]
Privacy is Power
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, […]
Life Without the Tech Giants
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 […]
There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
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 […]
ISIS and the Social Media War
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 […]
Predicting Future Crime
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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