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Fentanyl is nearly always described with the following three words: Powerful. Synthetic. Opioid. We break down facts about fentanyl to help you sta... (2023)
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
It failed to prepare the ground | Leaders Decriminalizing drugs: lessons from Oregon. States contemplating drug decriminalization need to prepar... (2023)
In fact, the Windy City could offer a model for change across America | United States (2023)
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its... (2021)
The property market makes a good place to hide ill-gotten gains | Europe (2021)
The DNA profiling company said it challenged the requests, which were later withdrawn. (2021)
Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants. The search warrant compelled Google to provide police with the ... (2021)
One DC resident said she was visited by the FBI because her cell phone pinged off a cell tower near the Capitol on the day of the riots. (2021)
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem... (2020)
Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime. As the Tampa Bay Times reports,... (2020)
by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)
More than 2,400 police agencies have entered contracts with Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition firm, according to comments made by Cl... (2020)
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time. (2020)
No 'blue wall of silence:' A military lawyer explains why the US armed forces take accountability and justice seriously. (2020)
Last week, Microsoft said it would not sell its facial recognition to police departments. But new documents reveal it was pitching that technology ... (2020)
Black Americans have seen technology used to target them again and again. Stopping it means looking at the problem differently. (2020)
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them? (2020)
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing prob... (2020)
Pollination has become big business, and thieves are now targeting hives with growing sophistication in the US A booming demand for honeybees fo... (2020)
Newly-released body camera footage shows an Orlando police officer taking a 6-year-old girl away in handcuffs. A school safety expert explains the ... (2020)
Clearview AI's cofounder Hoan Ton-That claims his company has scraped billions of photos from the internet, including popular sites like Facebook, ... (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even th... (2019)
Twenty years ago, Norway started focusing on rehabilitating prisoners, and sharply cut reoffending rates. (2019)
A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field. (2019)
Stopping Overdose Deaths Isn’t Rocket Science. But It Is Expensive. Little Falls, Minnesota, didn’t do anything revolutionary. They just made a ... (2019)
The Verge interviews Daniel L. Chen, a researcher at both the Toulouse School of Economics and University of Toulouse Faculty of Law, who suggests ... (2019)
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday ... (2018)
Companies like Netflix, Facebook, and Uber deploy algorithms in search of greater efficiency. But when used to evaluate the powerful systems that j... (2018)
With record seizures of cocaine at Belgian ports, the country has become Europe’s cocaine-trafficking capital. As the flow of drugs increases, loca... (2023)
Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. Th... (2018)
John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system. Connect with Last Week Toni... (2018)
TED-Ed Published on Jan 25, 2018 When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during ... (2018)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (2022)