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Crocodyl: Collaborative research on corporations
Website
Crocodyl is a collaboration sponsored by CorpWatch, the Center for Corporate Policy and the Corporate Research Project. Our aim is to stimulate collaborative research among NGOs, journalists, activist...
Data Mining You: How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
Engelhardt, Tom
Article
2012
Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Telbis, Rozali
Article
2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the pub...
No Child Left Un-Mined? Student Privacy at Risk in the Age of Big Data
Chideya, Farai
Article
2015
Chideya discusses the implications of the compilation of big data trails containing information about children's performance in school.

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CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
Sources News Release
2009
CorpWatch announces the release of a second version of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API. CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publ...
CrocTail
Information about Corporations and their Subsidiaries
CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information parsed from SEC filings about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign subsidiaries. Information from compan...
Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
Nava, Victor
2015
Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
Spies for Hire
Company profiles and articles related to intelligence outsourcing.
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
Sources News Release
2009
Starting today, journalists, activists, and corporate researchers will be able to use the Internet site SpiesForHire.org to track the nation#s most important intelligence contractors.
Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
Atkin, Ross
2018
Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the c...
Test Your Online Privacy Protection with EFF's Panopticlick
Sources News Release
2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping you analyze the privacy protections in your Web browser. New Feature Analyzes Your Web Br...

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IntelligentSearch.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ...