[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data

Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com

Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.

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[Link] AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago

Read: 6/5/2022 www.vice.com

The identified groups make up less than 4 percent of Chicago's police force but account for a quarter of all complaints, settlements, and shootings.

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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source

Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com

We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.

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[Link] Two Pandas functions you must know for easy data manipulation in Python

Read: 9/8/2021 towardsdatascience.com

I do a lot of data work — some of it data science, some of it data visualisation, some of it data adjacent — like messing around with sports analytics. All of it is done in Python, and almost always Pandas is involved for data manipulation.

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