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NEW: We looked at how contract tracing is playing out around the world & the US. The beginnings of American efforts aren’t promising. We could have a chaotic stew of apps that vary between jurisdictions, led by companies with no public health experience
buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
Utah and North Dakota already have contact tracing apps. The companies that made them have experience not in public health, but with location-based social apps. One made heat map app that shows where North Dakota State Bison football fans go on game day
buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
Apple + Google have been carefully creating an API they say will protect privacy. But at the end of the day, health departments in different cities & states will be the ones in charge of the contact tracing apps, and trusting the right people to build them
buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
I'll be continuing to report on contact tracing efforts around the country. If you know about something I should hear about, email me at caroline.haskins@buzzfeed.com or Signal me at +1 (785) 813-1084
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SCOOP: I got hundred of pages of documents + content moderation info for Gaggle, a student surveillance giant. It scans emails, calendar events, chats, documents, & everything students do. And it pays contract content moderators $10/hour to review it all
buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
Gaggle is quietly a huge force in content moderation. It says it blocks “over a million" student comms/month, using a “blocked word list" I was able to partially render. It also has a “top concerns” chart showing kids who break the rules most often
Gaggle offers content moderation with a specific promise: to prevent student suicides. It claims it saved exactly 722 lives last year. But that’s such a delicate and hard-to-prove claim.
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SCOOP (1/2): I obtained a Palantir user manual, designed to be used by cops, through a public record request. The guide shows—in detail we’ve never seen before—how the Palantir’s Gotham software tracks, logs, and surveils people.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
Here’s what you need to know about how Palantir works, as illustrated by the guide Motherboard obtained:
SCOOP (2/2): 300 cities had access to Palantir through company contracts with Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which is run by the DHS. The NCRIC gives info to police depts in 14 counties home to almost 8 million people. This is huge.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
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