Investigative Journalism in the Digital Age: Privacy, Security and the Media

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Covers concrete collaborations between reporters and technologists, reproducing an academic finding that 6,000 kids apps include more than half that leak identifiers potentially breaching COPPA, reverse‑engineers a Google Safari cookie bypass that Google stops, uses dynamic app analysis and purchased purchases to prove online price discrimination, maps raw location pings from a leaked dataset implicating 75 location firms and identifying visits to sensitive sites, and teams with students to expose the follower factory of mass‑created fake Twitter accounts.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 3:26No Privacy Get It
3. 4:34What They Know
4. 5:39Google bypassed Safari settings
5. 6:54Using technology
6. 10:05Algorithmic bias
7. 10:53Other reporters
8. 11:55Technology
9. 14:35App Sense
10. 19:34Location Data Ecosystem
11. 21:35Location Data Companies
12. 28:31Benefits of Working with Academics
13. 29:28Reaching Lawmakers and Policymakers
14. 30:04Technical Barriers
15. 31:11Proof
16. 31:56What constitutes proof
17. 33:18In action
18. 34:31Hacked
19. 35:20Academic vs Journalism
20. 35:55Interest in Process
21. 36:17RealWorld Examples
22. 38:00Examples of Harm
23. 39:10Opportunities for Accountability
24. 40:06Working with the Media
25. 40:21Collaboration
26. 41:34Timelines
27. 42:43Technical Research vs Reporting
28. 43:38Space Limitations
29. 46:06Fact Check
30. 47:54Gus Andrews
31. 51:02Jennifer Ferris
32. 53:44Dave Crocker
33. 56:33Baka
34. 58:59How to contact journalists

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