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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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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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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

Why Your Robot Car Should Ignore You

9 June 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman Nautilus In 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Google’s newest driverless car prototype had no steering wheel and no brakes. […]

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LAW

What do Driverless Cars Mean for Policing?

18 October 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Robin Washington The Marshall Project If you’ve ever been pulled over for a broken taillight and suffered a punishing fine — or worse — you can take heart that […]

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LAW

Who’s Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?

26 July 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Corinne Iozzio Scientific American Valentine’s Day was a bummer in Mountain View, Calif. For the first time, one of Google’s self-driving cars, a modified Lexus SUV, caused a crash. Detecting […]

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LAW

The Secret Rules of the Internet

19 April 2016by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly The Verge Today, YouTube’s billion-plus users upload 400 hours of video every minute. Every hour, Instagram users generate 146 million “likes” and Twitter users send […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

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

We are Hopelessly Hooked on our Smartphones

24 February 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jacob Weisberg The New York Review of Books “As smoking gives us something to do with our hands when we aren’t using them, Timegives us something to do with […]

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