[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] SafeGraph Investor Selling His Stake, Donating the Money to Planned Parenthood

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

Motherboard reported that SafeGraph was selling aggregated location data of people who visited family planning centers, raising concerns the data could be used to figure out which clinics were providing out-of-state abortions. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance.

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[Link] ​​Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.

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