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The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders
Technology plays a significant role in community building—especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (nearly a third of...
What You Should Know Before Using the Lensa AI App
Has the stale selfie that’s served as your profile picture gone a little too long without a refresh? You’ve likely seen friends using the Lensa AI app to create colorful, custom...
The Quiet Invasion of ‘Big Information’
Google and Facebook's privacy violations are common knowledge. But the decisions of a less-known company, Relx, are also impacting people's everyday lives.
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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies...
Seeking Psychedelics? Check the Data Privacy Clause
Next week, Coloradans will vote on a ballot initiative that, if approved, would create a regulated market for psilocybin in the state. Under this initiative, called Proposition 122,...
What It Means to ‘Feel Normal’ Online
Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are responding with a...
