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'It's Bad Design On Purpose' – Why Website Cookie Banners Look Like That
I rejected cookies for three days straight, and learned that while websites might say they "value your privacy", there are darker motives at play.
What We Know—and Don’t—About the CDC’s New COVID Delta Variant Data
Yes, vaccinated people were infected with COVID, but that doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work.
Hacktivist Posts Massive Scrape of Crime App Citizen to Dark Web
The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.
Sexts Are Still Being Used as Evidence in Rape Trials
Even though UK police pledged to abandon the controversial practice last year, so-called "digital strip searches" are still taking place.
This Transparency Project Is Creating a Massive Collection of Police Data
America police data is a fractured mess of different departments and standards, the Police Data Accessibility Project wants to change that.
TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don't Have an Account
I submitted a request under the GDPR, and was shocked to see what data the platform had been recording.
This Simple Tool Will Help You See What Websites Know About You
JustGetMyData walks you through the often complicated process of retrieving your data from sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon.
LexisNexis to Pay $5 Million Class Action Settlement for Selling DMV Data
LexisNexis had taken data from DMVs and then resold it to other organizations that did not have a legally permissible use for the information, the complaint said.
Buyers Abused DMV Data, California DMV Says
"On the whole, driver’s license data ends up in too many hands which increases the risk of personal information being abused."
China has Been Doing ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Millions of Citizens in US, UK, Australia and India
A database of 2.4 million personal details has been leaked. Experts are calling it "frightening".
This Platform Is Crowdsourcing Information To Visualise How COVID-19 Has Impacted the World
Covid Measures is a citizens’ tracker of governmental measures, guidelines, and human impact of coronavirus with a presence in more than 140 countries globally.
California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators
An internal document obtained by Motherboard lists the commercial requesters for California DMV data.