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Pulse

What We Know—and Don’t—About the CDC’s New COVID Delta Variant Data

07.30.21

By Christina Sterbenz and Samir Ferdowsi
Tech

Hacktivist Posts Massive Scrape of Crime App Citizen to Dark Web

05.26.21

By Joseph Cox
Pulse

Sexts Are Still Being Used as Evidence in Rape Trials

03.22.21

By Sarah Haque
Tech

This Transparency Project Is Creating a Massive Collection of Police Data

03.19.21

By Matthew Gault
Life

TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don’t Have an Account

01.21.21

By Riccardo Coluccini
Tech

This Simple Tool Will Help You See What Websites Know About You

01.07.21

By Matthew Gault
Tech

LexisNexis to Pay $5 Million Class Action Settlement for Selling DMV Data

11.05.20

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Buyers Abused DMV Data, California DMV Says

10.29.20

By Joseph Cox
Pulse

China has Been Doing ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Millions of Citizens in US, UK, Australia and India

09.14.20

By Gavin Butler
Pulse

This Platform Is Crowdsourcing Information To Visualise How COVID-19 Has Impacted the World

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By Shamani Joshi
Tech

California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Data to Private Investigators

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