Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention. Read more here.
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Seven whistleblowers have been prosecuted for leaking information to publishers since 2017. We’ve mined the court filings in the cases filed by Trump’s Justice Department to identify the methods used to unmask these alleged sources.
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Repression of labor at Fiat Brazil came thanks to coordination between the security apparatuses of the Brazilian government and a massive clandestine espionage network operated within the company itself.
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An Amazon Ring video reveals that the company built a bespoke portal for law enforcement officers who want access to the enormous volume of residential surveillance footage generated by customers’ cameras.
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Prisons across the U.S. are quietly building databases of incarcerated people’s voice prints.
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Google’s Sidewalk Labs plans to package and sell location data on millions of cellphones.
Homeland Security will let computers predict who might be a terrorist on your plane — just don’t ask how it works.
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The NYPD gang database can turn unsuspecting New Yorkers into instant felons. A young man who police claim is a gang member is suing the NYPD over its refusal to turn over records about its secretive gang database.
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Amazon’s accent recognition technology could tell the government where you’re from.
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Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” faces new resistance in Toronto.
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