As US COVID-19 cases surge, public health officials are battling broken, fragmented data systems, some relying on fax, that are seriously impeding progress
Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can't easily use. Tweets: @sarahkliff , @bymikebaker , @l...
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight. Tweets: @satariano , @carnage4life , @...
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years
PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. Tweets: @alecstapp , @eff , @imhassan , and @quatrainman Tweets...
Inside the illicit world of “iCloud unlocking”, where cybercriminals trick iPhone owners or Apple staff into removing an iCloud account to resell the iPhone
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones. Tweets: @josephfcox , @jason_koebler , @jason_k...