Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software in the Netherlands scored 100,000s of people on benefits, in first reconstruction of this kind, we reveal prejudice and randomness
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Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Trove of internal documents offers rare insight into how governments justify seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
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Biometrics and the Enslavement of African Elections
Technology has been pushed as a panacea for African democracies. As Kenya faces its third biometric election, a French multinational has made tens of millions from failed systems
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Is Europol becoming a European NSA?
The most in-depth investigation to date of the EU police agency uncovers years of unlawful retention of personal data
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Unlocking a welfare fraud prediction algorithm
Rotterdam has deployed a predictive algorithm to flag welfare recipients for investigation; we obtained the source code.
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EU Spy Tech Serves Myanmar Junta
While the military coup and deadly crackdown in Myanmar has drawn European condemnation, EU funds and technology have secretly aided the junta in spying on its own population
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What is Palantir Doing in Europe?
The controversial US tech company is putting down roots in the EU’s security, public health and aviation sectors as well as its data infrastructure, raising questions
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