Issie Lapowsky, Author at CW Enterprises

Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That Doesn’t Exist

15th February 2019Issie Lapowsky

As he declared a national emergency Friday, President Trump repeatedly dismissed statistics and reports produced by his own government. Source: Wired – [...]

1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018

13th February 2019Issie Lapowsky

And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation [...]

Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps

7th February 2019Issie Lapowsky

The lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies. Source: Wired [...]

What It Takes to Pull Off the Country's First Online Census

6th February 2019Issie Lapowsky

Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to [...]

One Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data

25th January 2019Issie Lapowsky

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won [...]

How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated Children

17th January 2019Issie Lapowsky

Ad-hoc systems and haphazard databases made the Trump administration’s cruel border separation policies somehow even worse. Source: Wired – How the Feds [...]