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New York Times
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A profile of Hank Asher, the “father of data fusion” who died in 2013 after initiating a vast shift in privacy norms through his data mining software companies
McKenzie Funk / New York Times : X: @fighto , @badassdogooder , @wolfiechristl , and @mckenziefunk X: Paul Shapiro / @fighto : An absolutely insane story. Should be made into a movie. https://www.nyt...
2019-12-23
The Intercept
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Emails show how ICE uses datasets from data brokers like Thomson Reuters alongside social media sleuthing to track down suspected illegal immigrants
Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers …
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New York Times
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An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants
a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, via public record re...
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