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The hidden consequences of tech, revealed

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Open Sourced: The hidden consequences of tech, revealed

Recode’s new multiplatform journalism project explains and exposes the hidden consequences of tech — the good, the bad, and the complicated.

By Samantha Oltman and Joss Fong

Is it a HIPAA violation for your employer to require vaccines?

You probably don’t know what HIPAA really means. Let’s fix that.

By Sara Morrison

Seems like everyone hates Instagram for kids

By Rebecca Heilweil

Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network 

By Lauren Katz

There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves

By Sara Morrison
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What facial recognition steals from us

By Joss Fong

Your most important vaccine passport questions, answered

By Rebecca Heilweil

Here’s the nuclear option to opt out of tracking on iOS

By Sara Morrison

Why the new iOS update is such a big deal

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why Apple’s latest gadget is catching the attention of antitrust regulators

By Rebecca Heilweil

Amy Klobuchar takes aim at 12 vaccine misinformation influencers

By Rebecca Heilweil

Watch NASA’s new autonomous helicopter take flight on Mars

By Rebecca Heilweil

Biden makes good on his promise to punish Russia for the massive SolarWinds hack

By Sara Morrison

Like it or not, you should probably start paying attention to bitcoin

By Rebecca Heilweil

You can finally ask Facebook’s oversight board to remove bad posts. Here’s how.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why a global chip shortage is screwing up America’s pickup trucks

By Rebecca Heilweil

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

By Rebecca Heilweil

Biden’s plan to fix America’s broken internet, briefly explained

By Sara Morrison

Your Slack DMs aren’t as private as you think

By Rebecca Heilweil

Vaccine-themed gear is in high demand on Etsy

By Rebecca Heilweil

The FDA just made cheap, rapid, at-home Covid-19 testing even easier to get

By Sara Morrison

Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained

By Sara Morrison

Facebook is defending its algorithms. Critics aren’t buying it.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Everything you need to know about vaccine passports

By Rebecca Heilweil

If Mark Zuckerberg won’t fix Facebook’s algorithms problem, who will?

By Rebecca Heilweil

The teenager behind last year’s big celebrity Twitter hack is going to prison

By Sara Morrison

TikTok surprises users by making personalized ads mandatory

By Sara Morrison

Clubhouse got a little less creepy thanks to a recent update

By Sara Morrison

How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data

By Sara Morrison

This Democrat has a federal privacy bill Republicans might actually like

By Sara Morrison

Facebook is finally cracking down hard on anti-vaccine content. It is facing an uphill battle.

By Rebecca Heilweil

You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data.

By Sara Morrison

Google is done with cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s done tracking you

By Sara Morrison

The key ingredient that could hold back vaccine manufacturing

By Rebecca Heilweil

Twitter is tweaking its approach to vaccine misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil

Coming soon to Twitter: Tweets you have to pay for

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why some like Apple’s new privacy labels, despite their flaws

By Sara Morrison

App trackers secretly sell your location data to the government. App stores won’t stop them.

By Sara Morrison

You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t.

By Sara Morrison

Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.

By Sara Morrison

Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

By Rebecca Heilweil

Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine

By Rebecca Heilweil