All posts tagged "Data"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is eyeing a new way to target immigrants, which is raising red flags, according to a new report.

ICE is requesting more information on how to acquire data from digital advertisers, which could include information such as social media use, purchases, and web browsing, according to reporting by Politico.

"It's very shocking to see it in black and white that the government is trying to use the digital advertising ecosystem to find and target immigrants," Brian O'Kelley, the CEO of an AI -advertising firm, told Politico. "It makes me very, very nervous about how people's day-to-day use of the internet or their interactions with social media turn into being targeted. That's terrifying." ...

Former President Donald Trump likes to focus on one particular purported consequence of the influx of migrants coming into the U.S. from the southern border: an increase in crime.

There's just one problem, according to an NBC News report: Trump's supposed increase in crime isn't happening. In fact, crime is broadly down around the country — and it's down the most in many of the cities that have seen the largest numbers of migrants.

“You know, in New York, what’s happening with crime is it’s through the roof, and it’s called ‘migrant crime,’” Trump told a recent Michigan rally. “They beat up police officers. You’ve seen that they go in, they stab people, hurt people, shoot people. It’s a whole new form, and they have gangs now that are making our gangs look like small potatoes.”...

The data of millions of Americans is at risk after a global cyberattack hit the United States earlier this week, CNN reports.

On Thursday, CNN exclusively reported the cyberattack hit "federal agencies, state governments, private corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions in the" U.S.

The hack also affected "employees of the BBC, British Airways, oil giant Shell, and state governments in Minnesota and Illinois, among others," according to the report....

For the last two years, I've forced myself to get up at an unpleasant hour at least three days a week to fit a morning run into my already hectic schedule. Surprisingly, I learned to love running. As soon as I hit my stride and feel the endorphins flowing, my mood evolves from testy to unbearably chipper. A sweat-filled run through the mean streets of Los Angeles is my favorite way to start the day.

SAN FRANCISCO — US payroll-handling firm Automatic Data Processing (ADP) said Wednesday that hackers broke into one of its benefits administration business systems.

The Internet service provider (ISP) hosting WikiLeaks' servers is fighting back against the European Data Retention Directive by running all customer traffic through an encrypted virtual private network (VPN) service before logging it.