This is an interesting and important read. Interesting because it documents an event that many witnessed and continues to be a high profile news item. Important because as you read the story the extent to which individuals are being tracked from their mobile phone data. In this case, the surveillance of a class of terrorists …
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On privacy, one of Clearview’s early investors, David Scalzo: “I’ve come to the conclusion that because information constantly increases, there’s never going to be privacy,” Mr. Scalzo said. “Laws have to determine what’s legal, but you can’t ban technology. Sure, that might lead to a dystopian future or something, but you can’t ban it. Instead, …
The Times Privacy Project was given access to a data set with more than 50 billion location “pings” from the phones of more than 12 million Americans across several major cities. Each piece of information came down to a set of coordinates in time. The result is a tapestry of movement laid across a city …
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