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There's a New, Massive Database of NYPD Misconduct With 450,000 Records
The Legal Aid Society collected records from Freedom of Information requests, criminal cases, and more, and made them easy to search.
Hackers Just Leaked the Names of 92,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donors
GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night.
Why Are Prosecutors Keeping a Huge, Secretive DNA Database in Orange County?
"The fact that you are giving up your DNA for a relatively smaller misdemeanor crime—forever—is pretty scary, when you think about it.”
‘They Would Go Absolutely Nuts’: How a Mark Cuban-Backed Facial Recognition Firm Tried to Work With Cops
Suspect Technologies tried to convince police to hand over a database of driver license photos, and pitched a product that would scan for people of a certain ethnicity.
This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can't Even Tell You About It
A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings, for all to see on a server freely accessible over the internet. And it still hasn’t taken the data down.
Which Tech Giant Will Build a Revenge Porn Database?
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and others use pooled data to stamp out child abuse imagery. Some revenge porn victims want something similar, but who is going to make it?
The Woman with Autism Who Built a Renowned Database of Missing People
Meaghan Good says she finds it tough to do a "normal job," but her unique skills make her perfectly suited to run The Charley Project, one of the largest and most detailed online databases of missing persons in the US.
Hacktivist Breaks Into Minnesota Government Databases to Protest Philando Castile Verdict
“An innocent man died. And a guilty one lives freely.”
NASA's Massive Photo Archive Is Now on One Convenient, Searchable Site
The world's desktop backgrounds and screen savers are about to get the NASA bump, now that the organization has updated its site for 2017.
You Can Find Every ‘Joy of Painting’ Painting in This Searchable Bob Ross Database
We spoke to computer programmer Felix Auer about his archive of every painting made in ‘The Joy of Painting.’
Popular Teen Quiz App Wishbone Has Been Hacked, Exposing Tons of User Information
Hackers have stolen 2.2 million email addresses and 287,000 cellphone numbers from Wishbone users, many of whom are young women under the age of 18.
The RCMP Used Police Databases and Social Media to Track Aboriginal Protestors
The RCMP then made their identities known to front-line officers.