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Focus Tag: Surveillance
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You | The Markup
by Surya Mattu and Colin Lecher
April 28, 2022
For millions of prospective college students, applying online for federal financial aid has also meant sharing personal data with Facebook,…
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | The New Yorker
by Ronan Farrow
April 21, 2022
The parliament of Catalonia, the autonomous region in Spain, sits on the edge of Barcelona’s Old City, in the remains…
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
April 21, 2022
My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history. So shortly after we married, we chose to…
Google Maps Live Traffic Showed the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Motherboard
by Aaron Gordon and Matthew gault
February 24, 2022
At 3:15 AM local time, Jeffrey Lewis, an open source intelligence (OSINT) expert and professor at Middlebury Institute, saw a…
A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students | The Markup
by Colin Lecher
February 17, 2022
When Kurt Wilson, a computer science student at the University of Central Florida, heard that his university was using a…
The danger is still on our devices | Columbia Journalism Review
by Jon Allsop
February 10, 2022
Last month, Calcalist, a business newspaper in Israel, reported that police in the country had used Pegasus, a potent spyware…
Why the IRS plan to use ID.me facial recognition is so alarming | Slate Future Tense
by James Hendler
February 3, 2022
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to require citizens to create accounts with a private facial recognition company in order to…
Kazakhstan’s internet shutdown is the latest episode in an ominous trend: digital authoritarianism | The Conversation
by Margaret Hu
January 25, 2022
The Kazakhstan government shut off the internet nationwide on Jan. 5, 2022, in response to widespread civil unrest in the…
NSO Group promised to stop selling tools to spy on journalists. A new report proves otherwise | Rest of World
by Leo Schwartz
January 18, 2022
In July, a consortium of journalists unveiled the Pegasus Project: An investigation detailing how governments across the world deployed Pegasus…