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Danielle Harlow using Tableau Public – “I can no longer be silent or “professional”. I have so few skills to fight the cancer of fascism that is spreading through the country but as a “data person” — inspired by the work of the BlueSky account USA Disappeared Tracker (https://lnkd.in/gmc8nFNr) — I created a dashboard to …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
PBS News: “Project 2025, the conservative policy project, became a flashpoint during the presidential campaign. Angelo Carusone of Media Matters studied the 900-page document and spoke with Geoff Bennett for our series, On Democracy, where we hear a range of perspectives on how government should function, what led to this moment in American history and …
The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more. “Retail theft has dominated headlines, earnings calls, and political rhetoric for the last few years. Television news shows loop seemingly endless clips of …
Cyber Insider: “A Mozilla-led campaign is calling on major tech platforms to block surveillance firm ShadowDragon from scraping user data from over 200 websites — including Reddit, Tinder, Duolingo, and Etsy — to support U.S. government surveillance programs, especially those run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The controversy centers on ShadowDragon’s flagship tool, SocialNet, …
The Contrarian: “The most comprehensive post-mortem on the 2024 presidential elections—by Blue Rose Research, a leading Democratic polling firm that collected 26 million responses from voters of all ages, demographics and party affiliation in 2024—has been making the rounds of podcasts, newsletters and political media recently. Donald Trump won among young white men, and also …
Common Sense Media: As technology continues to reshape every aspect of our society, it is more crucial than ever to understand its influence on our youngest generation. We are excited to share the latest edition of the Common Sense Census: Zero to Eight, which provides the first comprehensive look since the pandemic at how children …
The New York Times: “…For government workers, it has been a lifeline in recent months. With the Trump administration’s rapid downsizing of the federal bureaucracy, subreddits where government workers previously posted the occasional tale about a Zoom meeting mishap or health plan question have become crowded forums for fears, anxieties and tidbits of intra-agency observation. …
Three Things to Know by Fred Rocha: “These are exciting times to be on Mastodon, one of the flavours of the Fediverse. Things are evolving fast, towards a space worthy of healthier online debate and exchange. Some of these conversations can be found on my own profile, if you’re curious. Here are some of the …
404 Media unlocked: “Any of these Reels could have been and probably was made in a matter of seconds or minutes. Many of the accounts that post them post multiple times per day. There are thousands of these types of accounts posting thousands of these types of Reels and images across every social media platform. …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 15, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis By Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on …
404 Media [unpaywalled] – “A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual’s publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web at once, including Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, …
