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Dhruv Mehrotra

@dmehro
34 posts
2025-10-15
Come for the incredible reporting, stay for the “I think I felt like shitting my pants or something”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...
2025-10-15 View on X
Mother Jones

Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

2024-11-20
NEW: Billions of coordinates sold by a US data broker exposed the movements of thousands of US military & intel personnel—from nuclear vaults and NSA hubs to their homes and brothels. The DoD knows the data is out there but can't stop its sale. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-11-20 View on X
Wired

An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …

Datastream Group, the data broker that tracked U.S. military movements inside suspected nuclear vaults, has taken its website offline and vanished from the internet. It did not respond to multiple requests for comments for our story. [image]
2024-11-20 View on X
Wired

An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …

2024-09-07
Transcripts of 405 of videos are available here: https://github.com/...
2024-09-07 View on X
Washington Post

YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content

The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the...

We analyzed hundreds of deleted Youtube videos of right-wing influencers working for Tenet Media—a company the DOJ alleges was financed and guided by a state-backed Russian news network. Here's what the paid influencers talked about: https://www.wired.com/...
2024-09-07 View on X
Washington Post

YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content

The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the...

2024-06-28
NEW: Perplexity was using a secret AWS-hosted virtual machine to scrape the web. Major newsroom we spoke to observed its IP address in their server logs. Now Amazon is investigating. w/ @AndrewCouts https://www.wired.com/...
2024-06-28 View on X
Wired

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so

AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …

2024-06-20
NEW: Perplexity is ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt), using a secret server to regurgitate news articles and investigations that take reporters years to create, often without giving us credit. W/ @timmarchman https://www.wired.com/...
2024-06-20 View on X
Wired

Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites

2024-06-06
Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced https://www.wired.com/...
2024-06-06 View on X
Wired

Investigation: 22M+ flight coordinates show how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, California, impacts residents and raises privacy concerns

In Chula Vista—based on analysis of more than 22.3 million coordinates from flight paths—police drones subject poorer residents to more surveillance and the drones are used to resp...

2024-05-22
NEW: Eventbrite's algorithm recommends listings selling opioids and fentanyl to people searching for addiction recovery events. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-05-22 View on X
Wired

An investigation into ticketing service Eventbrite found 7,400+ illicit listings, such as for escort services and drugs, some of which its algorithm recommended

A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone … Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange . X: @knibbs , @ihear...

2024-03-28
A data broker tracked the devices of visitors to a private island where Jeffrey Epstein allegedly assaulted and trafficked countless women and girls. The data, exposed online, details precise coordinates where hundreds live and work in the US https://www.wired.com/...
2024-03-28 View on X
Wired

Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors … Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @...

The data is extremely precise. It shows devices inside Epstein's waterfront “temple” and on his beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres island. [image]
2024-03-28 View on X
Wired

Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors … Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @...

The company tracked people visiting Epstein's island back to locations in 80 US cities: Mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha's Vineyard; a nightclub in Miami; across the street from Trump Tower; and on Epstein's other US properties [image]
2024-03-28 View on X
Wired

Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors … Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @...

Near Intelligence — a controversial company with known ties to the defense industry — tracked the devices on behalf of an unknown client. It amassed more than 10,000 coordinates from Epstein's visitors, likely siphoned from advertising exchanges, and exposed them online [image]
2024-03-28 View on X
Wired

Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors … Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @...

2023-12-05
NEW: Suicide Helplines, Planned Parenthood, the CDC, the NYT - all censored by algorithmic web filters used by one of the largest US school districts. We looked at 36GB of network logs and found students are being locked out of crucial parts of the web. https://www.wired.com/...
2023-12-05 View on X
Wired

An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs for January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread internet censoring filters, such as for health and sexuality info

A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. X: @meghann , @katiedrumm , ...

2023-03-06
It penalizes people most in need: parents, people struggling financially, and those with substance abuse. Being flagged for an investigation can literally ruin your life. Here's the second story in the series: https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Wired

An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.

NEW: Every year a government algorithm decides if thousands of welfare recipients will be investigated for fraud. Teaming up w/ @LHreports, we obtained the algorithm and found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender. Heres the story: https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Wired

An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender

Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.

2023-01-24
NEW with @telliotter: An app operated by India's Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a year https://www.wired.com/...
2023-01-24 View on X
Wired

Researcher: for over a year, India's education ministry app Diksha exposed the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of 1M+ teachers via an unsecured server

2022-09-23
A church (that swears its not a cult) had congregants install an app that reported everything its users did back to church leaders. My first for WIRED is about this niche ecosystem of “Shameware” apps built to police sinful behavior: https://www.wired.com/...
2022-09-23 View on X
Wired

A look at anti-pornography “accountability apps” used by churches and parents; two apps exploited Android's accessibility permissions to track users' every move

Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior.  Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.

2022-06-27
...Facebook continues to store sensitive scheduling information from pregnancy centers. They could easily fix this... [Screenshot of off-Facebook activity from 1stchoice.org]
2022-06-27 View on X
Protocol

In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions

Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …

2022-06-16
Experts worry that the data could be used as evidence against people in states where abortion is outlawed. Our analysis found that in states that will ban most or all abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned, at least 120 centers sent data to Facebook about their visitors.
2022-06-16 View on X
The Markup

Investigation: 294+ US crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from abortions, share website visitor info with Meta via Facebook's tracking pixel

The Markup :