How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa
When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.
When IP mapping goes awry dozens of strangers show up to the same home again and again looking for their stolen gear.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Jan 2019 20min Permalink
“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”
Mark Harris Wired Aug 2017 20min Permalink
A talk on personal data and the people who collect it:
"Let me ask a trick question. What was the most damaging data breach in the last 12 months? The trick answer is: it's likely something we don't even know about."
Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2015 Permalink