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How To Handle the Growing Flood of Leaked Data
An interview with Micah Lee, author of a new book on analyzing datasets that were leaked, hacked, or just accidentally left in the open
Keegan: I just read a great and disturbing story in Wired by Dhruv Mehrotra about a California police department that used DNA evidence to generate a speculative image of a suspect, and then they asked another agency to run it through facial recognition tools. But BlueLeaks itself is a massive amount of data and I still think that journalists haven’t even looked through it all, which is why, years later, there’s a sprinkling of stories like this insane DNA facial recognition AI one. In November, Wired published an article about a secret White House surveillance program that gave federal, state, and local law enforcement access to trillions of phone call records of Americans who weren’t suspected of a crime.
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