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Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
The property market makes a good place to hide ill-gotten gains | Europe (2021)
by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them? (2020)
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing prob... (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field. (2019)
In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery. (2018)
A 19-YEAR-OLD man wearing a gas mask and toting an assault rifle rampaged through his former school in Florida on February 14th, killing 17 pupils. (2018)
THE estimate is loose but noteworthy nonetheless. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reckons that every year crooks launder between $800b... (2018)
IN AMERICA, computers have been used to assist bail and sentencing decisions for many years. Their proponents argue that the rigorous logic of an a... (2018)
IN THE warren of alleyways that make up Rocinha, Brazil’s largest favela, the air is heavy with foreboding. A feud between factions of the Amigos d... (2017)
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its... (2021)
The DNA profiling company said it challenged the requests, which were later withdrawn. (2021)
Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants. The search warrant compelled Google to provide police with the ... (2021)
One DC resident said she was visited by the FBI because her cell phone pinged off a cell tower near the Capitol on the day of the riots. (2021)
Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime. As the Tampa Bay Times reports,... (2020)
More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time. (2020)
No 'blue wall of silence:' A military lawyer explains why the US armed forces take accountability and justice seriously. (2020)
Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. (2020)
Pollination has become big business, and thieves are now targeting hives with growing sophistication in the US A booming demand for honeybees fo... (2020)
Newly-released body camera footage shows an Orlando police officer taking a 6-year-old girl away in handcuffs. A school safety expert explains the ... (2020)
Clearview AI's cofounder Hoan Ton-That claims his company has scraped billions of photos from the internet, including popular sites like Facebook, ... (2020)
The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even th... (2019)
Stopping Overdose Deaths Isn’t Rocket Science. But It Is Expensive. Little Falls, Minnesota, didn’t do anything revolutionary. They just made a ... (2019)
The Verge interviews Daniel L. Chen, a researcher at both the Toulouse School of Economics and University of Toulouse Faculty of Law, who suggests ... (2019)
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday ... (2018)
Companies like Netflix, Facebook, and Uber deploy algorithms in search of greater efficiency. But when used to evaluate the powerful systems that j... (2018)
Recent news of Amazon’s engagement with law enforcement to provide facial recognition surveillance (branded "Rekognition"), along with the almost u... (2018)
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. Th... (2018)
John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system. Connect with Last Week Toni... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (2022)