only in america
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The US Has More Internet Porn Than Any Other Country
America: land of the free, home of the most internet porn in the universe. According to a study, the US of A hosts 60 per cent — or 428 million pages — of the world’s porn.
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US Government Is Classifying Less Information Than Ever Before
Despite the fact that the US government seems more enthusiastic than ever about gathering data, its taste for making it classified seems to be waning. This year’s Information Security Oversight Office report reveals that the total number of “original classification” decisions fell over 40 per cent in 2012.
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Where Hipsters Eat, Visualised
You probably turn to Yelp to look for single, stand-out restaurants and businesses. But there’s a lot of data inside all those reviews, which can make for fascinating analysis — letting you spot trends across geographic locations.
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The US Facial Recognition Database Hiding In Plain Sight
It’s only natural to be a little skeeved out by the idea that the government is slurping up your private data behind the scenes, but there’s a very public piece of your data being collected as well: the look on your face. There’s already a national database of over 120 million faces in the US,…