ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree(eff.org)

165 points by BeetleB 9 months ago | 115 comments

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709(eff.org)

65 points by mdp2021 1 month ago | 50 comments

Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports(eff.org)

110 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 15 comments

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE(eff.org)

457 points by exiguus 1 year ago | 245 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that data brokers are selling travelers' flight information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE.

Electronic Frontier Foundation(eff.org)

15 points by tomrod 1 year ago | 2 comments

Court Records Should Be Free(eff.org)

430 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 99 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that federal court records should be freely accessible to the public.

Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits(gizmodo.com)

358 points by rntn 2 years ago | 95 comments

Gizmodo news article on a judge ruling that a $400 million algorithmic eligibility system illegally denied thousands of people Medicaid benefits.

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants(bmj.com)

327 points by dberhane 9 months ago | 155 comments

A BMJ article reporting on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement using Palantir tools and health data to locate undocumented immigrants.

The American Healthcare Conundrum(github.com)

493 points by rexroad 7 months ago | 559 comments

GitHub repository for an investigative data journalism project analyzing CMS, OECD, and federal datasets to quantify fixable waste in US healthcare.

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number(theintercept.com)

719 points by lehi 8 months ago | 290 comments

The Intercept article reporting that Google gave ICE a student journalist's bank and credit card numbers in response to a subpoena without giving him a chance to contest it.

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research(insidemedicine.substack.com)

748 points by KittenInABox 1 year ago | 513 comments

Inside Medicine Substack post by Jeremy Faust reporting that the CDC ordered retraction or revision of submitted manuscripts containing banned terms like gender and LGBT.