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The Ethical Problem Of Predictive Policing Algorithms Using Your Data
Predictive policing promises to make law enforcement more efficient by identifying places, times, or people supposedly associated with future crime. It sounds…
Why Police Departments Are Buying Your Social Media Data Directly
Police investigations have always depended on information gathered outside the station. Witness statements, public records, telephone logs, and surveillance…
How to create a burner identity for online commenting
Online discussion can expose far more than a username suggests. A comment may be connected to an email address, device identifier, browser fingerprint,…
When workplace chat becomes a productivity score
The surveillance of workplace messaging apps for productivity scoring is becoming easier to deploy and harder for employees to see. Platforms such as Slack,…
How to Remove Your Address from Data Broker Sites for Free
Your home address can appear online even when you have never published it yourself. Data brokers collect information from public records, commercial databases,…
How DNS leaks expose traffic behind a VPN
A virtual private network is often described as a tunnel between your device and a remote VPN server. That description is useful, but incomplete. The tunnel…
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Voicemail-to-Text Services
Voicemail-to-text services promise a small but meaningful convenience: instead of listening to a long message, you can read a transcription in seconds. The…
How To Protect Yourself From SIM Swapping Attacks
Your phone number is often treated as proof of identity. Banks, email providers, social networks, and password managers may send a text message when you sign…
The Underreported Data Collection by Smart Lightbulbs
Smart lighting is usually sold as a small convenience: an app dims the bedroom before sleep, a voice assistant turns on the hallway, and a schedule makes the…
How to use Tor safely for everyday browsing
Tor is often associated with hidden services, whistleblowers, and criminal marketplaces. That reputation can obscure its more ordinary purpose: reducing the…