Ed Pilkington reports: The US justice department secretly issued a subpoena to gain access to details of the phone account of a Guardian reporter as part of an aggressive leak investigation into media stories about an official inquiry into the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the southern border. Leak investigators issued the subpoena to…
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Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users’ Precise Locations
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stalk users, according to a researcher. […] In April, David Teather, a computer science student, analyzed…
Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood
Joseph Cox reports: SafeGraph, a location data broker, has stopped offering data related to Planned Parenthood and other similar family planning centers after Motherboard found it was possible to buy information on how many people were visiting the facilities, where they came from, and where they went afterwards, something that experts saw as highly concerning in the…
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
Joseph Cox reports: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC…