News1/15/21Jan 154News1/15/21NewsLeaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military BasesDell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra46Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before…
Privacy and Security1/12/21Jan 125Privacy and Security1/12/21Privacy and SecurityParler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data ShowsDell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra277At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed…
Politics1/8/21Jan 84Politics1/8/21PoliticsThe Big Oil Money Behind the Members of Congress Who Fueled the Capitol AttackBrian Kahn and Dhruv Mehrotra53On Wednesday, Chevron decried the assault on the Capitol by a mob of violent extremists hellbent on halting a…
Privacy and Security12/11/20Dec 116Privacy and Security12/11/20Privacy and SecurityU.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate TerroristsTom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra114In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by…
Privacy and Security11/25/20Nov 252Privacy and Security11/25/20Privacy and SecurityA New 'Buy Black' Campaign Aims to Avert an Amazon Surveillance StateDell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra6After a summer of nationwide protests against unchecked state violence brutalizing Black people in America,…
Privacy and Security10/23/20Oct 233Privacy and Security10/23/20Privacy and SecurityCops Turn to Canadian Phone-Tracking Firm After Infamous 'Stingrays' Become 'Obsolete'Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra13Law enforcement agencies across the United States are scrambling to secure funding for new cellphone-tracking…
News9/24/20Sep 24SaveNews9/24/20NewsLouisville Police Take Down Inmate Lookup Site Amid Mass Arrest of ProtestersDhruv Mehrotra1An estimated 127 people have been arrested since protesters took to the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on …
Gadgets9/22/20Sep 222Gadgets9/22/20GadgetsThe Nvidia RTX 3080 eBay Debacle Exposed a Scalper Bot Civil WarJoanna Nelius and Dhruv Mehrotra71Last week, RTX 3080 scalpers pissed off a lot of Nvidia GPU fans by buying up all the graphics cards and attempting…
Environmental Justice9/18/20Sep 181Environmental Justice9/18/20Environmental JusticeCBP Drones Conducted Flyovers Near Homes of Indigenous Pipeline Activists, Flight Records ShowYessenia Funes and Dhruv Mehrotra9Tom Goldtooth awoke on Feb. 21 expecting a pretty regular day ahead. And by all accounts, his day was normal. He was…
Privacy and Security9/4/20Sep 4SavePrivacy and Security9/4/20Privacy and SecurityPrison Phone App Exposes Millions of Inmate Messages and Personal DataDhruv Mehrotra1As many incarcerated individuals are having their visiting privileges restricted due to the global pandemic,…
Jul 2867/28/20This Bumbling New Start-Up Helps Conservative Websites Store User Names, Postal Addresses of Anonymous ReadersMolly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra40Recently, Jezebel received a curious email from someone who identified themselves as a co-founder of GetEmails.com,…
Privacy and Security7/21/20Jul 21SavePrivacy and Security7/21/20Privacy and SecurityDHS Is Spying on Social Media to Track Threats to StatuesDhruv Mehrotra31The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis has been authorized to conduct social media…
Privacy and Security6/9/20Jun 92Privacy and Security6/9/20Privacy and SecurityWe Mapped Where Customs and Border Protection Drones Are Flying in the U.S. and BeyondTom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra34In 2011, Rodney Brossart, a cattle rancher from Lakota, North Dakota was accused of stealing six cows. The cows, he…
Privacy and Security5/29/20May 291Privacy and Security5/29/20Privacy and SecurityCustoms and Border Protection Flew a Predator Surveillance Drone Over Minneapolis Protests TodayTom McKay and Dhruv Mehrotra48Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has flown a Predator drone above ongoing protests against police brutality in…
Privacy and Security5/20/20May 20SavePrivacy and Security5/20/20Privacy and SecurityThe Mystery of 'Hacked' Houseparty Users May Have Been SolvedDhruv Mehrotra13By the end of March, things were looking good for the group video chat app Houseparty as quarantined young people,…
Privacy and Security5/18/20May 18SavePrivacy and Security5/18/20Privacy and SecuritySamsung, Rolls-Royce Information Exposed by Leaky Database, Security Firm SaysDhruv Mehrotra1Hypothetically, if you, a criminal, wanted to steal millions of dollars from a corporation, one place to start might…
Privacy and Security5/14/20May 141Privacy and Security5/14/20Privacy and SecurityBeware Sending a Fax Online—It Might Not Be as Private as You ThinkDhruv Mehrotra7On top of being laid off or furloughed, hordes of people have had to figure out how to send a fax while on lockdown.…
May 11Save5/11/20The Real Bailout is Happening on GoFundMeMolly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra30Susan Arnold, a 58-year-old Uber driver in Chicago, first became acquainted with GoFundMe last year, when she helped…
Apr 2724/27/20When Your Freedom Depends on an AppDhruv Mehrotra and Molly Osberg61On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a…
Privacy and Security4/3/20Apr 32Privacy and Security4/3/20Privacy and SecurityFEMA Contractor Tracing Coronavirus Deaths Uses Web Scraping, Social Media MonitoringDell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraOn December 31, few Americans had ever heard the word “coronavirus.” It was unfathomable that in cities like…