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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29…
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When Your Neighbor Turns You In
There’s a knock at the door. Local authorities have received a tip that you’ve broken the moral code—a new set…
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How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech
Pfefferkorn also encourages asking your school to perform an audit of its monitoring software, which could reveal what kind of…
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Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped…
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Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside.…
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How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?
This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to…
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2 Visions Clash Over How to Fight Online Child Abuse in Europe
Encrypted messenger services have been quick to condemn the Commission’s proposal. Julia Weiss, a spokesperson for the Swiss messenger app…
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How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men’s Lives
After his arrest, Parks didn’t tell many people, in part because of his prior record. “When you’re trying to do…
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Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy Is Now a Scrap Over Phone Records
In Myanmar, the phone records of pro-democracy activists connect them together like suspects on a cork board. When many of…
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A Year In, Biden’s China Policy Looks a Lot Like Trump’s
On December 10, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions, including a bar on American investments, on SenseTime, a Chinese artificial…
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