Dell Cameron
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Coming to iOS: ‘Safety Check’ for Domestic Violence Victims
Apple on Monday unveiled a new feature coming to iOS 16 designed chiefly to help people sever ties with their abusive partners who may tracking their locations or secretly reading their messages.
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7 Things We Learned From the Facebook Papers About Jan. 6, Meta, and the News Feed
On April 18, 2022, Gizmodo began releasing once-confidential Facebook documents, once the only accessible to members of Congress and the media. As of May 2, we’ve published more than 1,000 pages of what’s come to be known as the Facebook Papers. Here are some highlights from our first two releases, which cover the 2020 election,…
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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Privacy ‘Incidents’ at DHS on the Rise, Report Says
A new government study mostly lauding the Homeland Security Department’s handling of Americans’ personal information nevertheless detected “gaps” in the ways a few of its agencies have followed procedures designed to ward off security threats.