Surya Mattu
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New Delhi, DL, India
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Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites –
Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information → Read More
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You –
The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook → Read More
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Blacks and Latino neighborhoods. → Read More
How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods
A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol → Read More
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them –
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods → Read More
Blacklight –
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn. → Read More
Blacklight –
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn. → Read More
Blacklight –
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn. → Read More
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website –
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data → Read More
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website –
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data → Read More
Facebook Wanted Us to Kill This Investigative Tool
Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook’s People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate recommendations. By November, we had it mostly figured out: Facebook has nearly limitless access to all the phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and social media handles most people on Earth have ever used. That, plus its deep mining of people’s messaging behavior on… → Read More
Your Smart Home Is Spying on You. Here’s How to Spy Back.
After Gizmodo’s investigation into the data smart homes expose about our lives, many of you asked how you could monitor the digital emissions from your own homes. Well, you’re in luck. → Read More
Your Smart Home Is Spying on You. Here’s How to Spy Back.
After Gizmodo’s investigation into the data smart homes expose about our lives, many of you asked how you could monitor the digital emissions from your own homes. Well, you’re in luck. → Read More
Keep Track Of Who Facebook Thinks You Know With This Nifty Tool
Keep Track Of Who Facebook Thinks You Know With This Nifty Tool → Read More
Before You Hit 'Submit,' This Company Has Already Logged Your Personal Data
If you’re daydreaming about buying a home or need to lower the payment on the one you already have, you might pay a visit to the Quicken Loans mortgage calculator. You’ll be asked a quick succession of questions that reveal how much cash you have on hand or how much your home is worth and how close you are to paying it off. Then Quicken will tell you how much you’d owe per month if you got a… → Read More
How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition
In the summer of 2015, Alexandra Franco got a letter in the mail from a company she had never heard of called AcurianHealth. The letter, addressed to Franco personally, invited her to participate in a study of people with psoriasis, a condition that causes dry, itchy patches on the skin. → Read More
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago
We tested internet security at four Trump properties. It's not good. → Read More
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago. We Tested It.
Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish. → Read More
Here's How Easy It Is to Get Trump Officials to Click on a Fake Link in Email
Even technology experts can be insecure on the internet, as last week’s “Google Docs” phishing attack demonstrated. An array of Gmail users, including BuzzFeed tech reporter Joe Bernstein, readily handed over access to their email to a bogus app. Politicians should be especially wary of suspicious emails given recent events, yet a security test run by the Special Projects Desk found that a… → Read More
Here's How Easy It Is to Get Trump Officials to Click on a Fake Link in Email
Even technology experts can be insecure on the internet, as last week’s “Google Docs” phishing attack demonstrated. An array of Gmail users, including BuzzFeed tech reporter Joe Bernstein, readily handed over access to their email to a bogus app. Politicians should be especially wary of suspicious emails given recent events, yet a security test run by the Special Projects Desk found that a… → Read More