Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu report: 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 [Read More…]
Jordan Pearson reports: For over a year, Canadian military, intelligence, police, and border agencies have been meeting to develop and coordinate their biometric capabilities, which use biological markers like facial recognition and iris scanning to identify individuals. This initiative—details of which were revealed to Motherboard in documents obtained through an [Read More…]
There’s been yet another massive data leak involved enriched voter registration data. You can read about it on a number of sites this morning, but I just want to pull out one quick statement from The Hill’s coverage to give you an idea of what’s being compiled – and shared [Read More…]
CBS/AP reports: Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing every aspect of their lives for two decades to help scientists collect data for what is being called “The Human Project.” Researchers will analyze everything from cellphone usage, Google searches, credit card swipes and even blood samples for [Read More…]