Who Decides When A Protest Becomes A Facebook 'Disaster'?
What was originally a feature that had to be manually flipped on by humans at Facebook is now another portion of the service that’s been yielded to the control of an “algorithm.”
View ArticleApple Logs Your iMessage Contacts — And May Share Them With Police
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But that's not entirely true.
View ArticleIn The Chicago Police Department, If The Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It...
Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry.
View ArticlePentagon Video Warns Of 'Unavoidable' Dystopian Future For World’s Biggest...
The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for "adversaries and hybrid threats," and that the US Army is unprepared.
View ArticleHow A Facial Recognition Mismatch Can Ruin Your Life
FBI facial recognition experts identified Steve Talley as a bank robber. They were wrong.
View ArticleThe Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance
Inside Enhance, a small New Zealand security company that's responsible for huge breaches of privacy.
View ArticleWhen The FBI Has A Phone It Can’t Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers
Phone manufacturers, to their credit, have forged pretty tough-to-crack security measures. If a phone's involved in a crime, however, an Israeli firm called Cellebrite probably won't have a problem...
View ArticleThe Problem With The Story Connecting Russia To Donald Trump’s Email Server
No one, not Tea Leaves, not his academic peers, and not Slate's Franklin Foer, can show that a single message was exchanged between Trump and Alfa.
View ArticlePeter Thiel And Donald Trump Are Making Fools Out Of Silicon Valley Geniuses
What possible justification is there, critics are asking, for Y Combinator to retain as a partner a person who not only served as a delegate and Republic National Convention speaker for a presidential...
View ArticleSeeding Doubt
A nonprofit purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting industry experts.
View ArticleThe NSA's Spy Hub, Hidden In Plain Sight
One of the most important surveillance centers on US soil is a big, windowless box in lower Manhattan.
View ArticleThe Washington Post Promoted A McCarthyite Media Blacklist From A Shady,...
With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about "fake news" ended up disseminating far more than it exposed.
View ArticleHere’s The Public Evidence Russia Hacked The DNC – It’s Not Enough
There are some good reasons to believe Russians had something to do with the breaches into Democratic email accounts. But “good” doesn’t necessarily mean good enough to indict Russia’s head of state...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook Met With Trump To 'Engage' On Gigantic Corporate Tax Cut
Apple wants to bring home the $200 billion it's stashed overseas, and Trump wants to give them a huge tax cut to make it happen.
View ArticleThe Dark Side Of VR
The kinds of behaviors virtual reality captures have long been a holy grail for data-monetizing companies.
View ArticleThe Crimes Of SEAL Team 6
SEAL Team 6 is the most celebrated of the U.S. military’s special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings,...
View ArticleWomen Visiting Loved Ones Jailed At Rikers Describe Years Of Invasive...
New York City jails are prohibited from strip-searching or cavity-searching visitors. Yet dozens of women say guards have subjected them to such procedures.
View ArticleGet Ready For The First Shocks Of Trump’s Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine," on Pence's role in the response to Hurricane Katrina and how crises line pockets.
View ArticleThe FBI’s Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. A cache of documents offers a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
View ArticleWhite Supremacists Have Infiltrated Our Law Enforcement
Bureau policies have been crafted to take into account the active presence of domestic extremists in US police departments.
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