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Privacy Tools: Opting Out from Data Brokers
by Julia AngwinIn the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of blog posts, I try to distill the lessons from my privacy...
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State Department Finally Releases List of ‘Special Government Employees’
by Justin Elliott and Liz DayLast year, Politico reported that former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had a special arrangement under which she simultaneously worked for the State Department and a...
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Tire Tracker
By Ben Chartoff, Harlo Holmes, Brian Jacobs, Aurelia Moser, Gabriela Rodriguez and Marcos Vanetta, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews; Al Shaw and Mike Tigas, ProPublicaUse this database to look up how your tires...
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Tire Tracker
By Ben Chartoff, Harlo Holmes, Brian Jacobs, Aurelia Moser, Gabriela Rodriguez and Marcos Vanetta, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews; Al Shaw and Mike Tigas, ProPublicaUse this database to look up how your tires...
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The PTSD Crisis That’s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own...
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As the Media Gets Bored With Obamacare, Is the Public Starting to Get on Board?
by Charles OrnsteinWe have now passed several key milestones in the open enrollment cycle for the Affordable Care Act: The deadline to sign up for coverage that was effective in January, the due date...
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Senator Cites ‘Serious Concerns,’ Demands National Quality Forum Records
by Marshall AllenAn influential senator is demanding copies of contracts and conflict-of-interest policies from the National Quality Forum after allegations that kickbacks were paid to influence its...
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Using Prescriber Checkup: A Quick Guide
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Are You Etan Patz?
by Joaquin Sapien The 30-year-old American man had set up a nice life for himself in Europe. He’d been there two years. He had a good job with a company he liked, doing fulfilling work. He had a wife,...
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Epic Fail: Where Four State Health Exchanges Went Wrong
by Charles OrnsteinMuch has been written (and will continue to be written) about the spectacular failure of health insurance exchanges in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Oregon and Maryland—all blue states...
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Podcast: What Your Smartphone Might Be Telling the NSA About You
by Minhee Cho Last week, documents unveiled by ProPublica, the New York Times and the Guardian showed that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are not only capable of accessing your metadata...
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A Closer Look: Three Golden Ages of Journalism?
by Paul SteigerThis morning, ProPublica founder and executive chairman Paul Steiger received the William Allen White Foundation National Citation from the University of Kansas’s White School of...
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Cheat Sheet: The Tyson Gay File
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Overdozed on A-Rod? Here are Other Great Reads on Doping
This file was Aug. 21, 2013, and has been updated.We know, we know. Enough already. But as baroquely banal as Alex Rodriguez’s saga with performance enhancing drugs has become, the subject of sports...
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A Commander of the Dos Erres Massacre Squad Gets 10 Years in Prison
by Sebastian RotellaA federal judge sentenced a former Guatemalan Army officer to the maximum 10 years in prison Monday for immigration crimes, ruling that the ex-commando obtained U.S. citizenship by...
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You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi.
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Stasi Social Network Analysis
by Julia AngwinThis hand-drawn graphic, which is undated, was made by the East German secret police and appears to show the social connections the Stasi gleaned about a poet they were spying on.
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New York University Ramps up Internship Oversight
by Kara BrandeiskyAfter pressure from students, New York University’s career center has implemented a number of measures to improve screening of the internship listings it features online.The NYU...
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Obamacare’s Market Share Mystery: Will the Health Law Shake Up Insurance...
by Charles OrnsteinWell before enrollment began in Obamacare’s new insurance exchanges, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island dominated the state’s individual insurance market, with a 95 percent...
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Payments to CEO Raise New Conflicts at Top Health Quality Group
by Marshall AllenThe top executive at the country’s pre-eminent health care quality organization is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by two large medical companies that have a stake in the...
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