It’s no surprise that corporations harvest vast amounts of data about people, but documents in an FTC lawsuit detail the stunning amount that data brokers know about you and everyone else.
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Google location data was used to find Jan. 6 rioters. It’s disappearing.
Google has changed the way it saves location data, ending a controversial and powerful law enforcement tool.
Your car might be watching you to keep you safe — at the expense of your privacy
Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.
How the Iowa caucuses became the first major challenge of U.S. presidential campaigns
A political scientist traces the development of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and how the small, rural state became influential in presidential politics.
Why Democrats ditched the Iowa caucuses and Republicans kept them
The caucus is anachronistic, but Iowans give lots of reasons for why it should still exist — and why it should be first in the nation.
Elliott Epstein: Israel has no choice but to fight this way
Israeli Jews, despite having built a powerful military establishment, still have much to fear, little room to run and nowhere to hide. Nor can they expect any quarter from their enemies if they succumb.
Trump’s Iowa political organizing this year is nothing like his scattershot 2016 campaign
Donald Trump’s Iowa caucus campaign is very nuts-and-bolts. That may be a recognition that celebrity will only take him so far and attention to traditional political tools might be in his interest.
Paul Mills: Maine lost 2 legends named Dave in 2023
Two phenomenal Mainers took leave of us during this just past eventful year.
The science of saying goodbye to Santa
When your kids stop believing, it’s probably harder on you than on them.
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
This editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church titled was written in response to a letter by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real. The editorial was first published Sept. 21, 1897, in the newspaper The Sun (New York).