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Google Says It Will Delete Location Data When Users Visit Abortion Clinics
SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that it would delete abortion clinic visits from the location history of its…
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Columbia Won’t Participate in the Next U.S. News Rankings
Columbia University will not participate in the next U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges across the country, after…
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Reconsidering Privacy Risks After Roe
Receiving an abortion-inducing pill in Oklahoma City.Credit...Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersReconsidering privacy risks after Roe In the post-Roe era ...
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Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State
China is collecting a staggering amount of personal data from everyday citizens at a previously-unknown scale, a Times investigation has…
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Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, U.S. Data Shows
Over the course of 10 months, nearly 400 car crashes in the United States involved advanced driver-assistance technologies, the federal…
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How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Planet
It’s soft. It’s vegan. It looks just like leather. It’s also made from fossil fuels. An explosion in the use…
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How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?
Alyssa Blackburn, a data scientist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has spent several years performing…
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How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Every three months, Tesla publishes a safety report that provides the number of miles between crashes when drivers use the…
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.
Ed Lu wants to save Earth from killer asteroids. Or at least, if there is a big space rock streaking…
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The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
Every time we send an email, tap an Instagram ad or swipe our credit cards, we create a piece of…
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