12 Stories
Technology & Power
When a Public Database Goes Quiet, What Happens to the Record?
An examination of how changes to public datasets can make important decisions harder for journalists, researchers, and citizens to reconstruct.
Technology & Power
The Data Brokers Mapping Everyday Consumer Behavior
Examining the information trail created by ordinary digital transactions and the companies that turn those traces into commercial profiles.
Technology & Power
Inside the Tender Documents for a Digital Identity System
Examining technical requirements, vendor promises, safeguards, and oversight provisions in large-scale identity infrastructure.
AI & Algorithms
Inside the Algorithms Used to Screen Public Applications
Investigating how automated scoring systems enter public services and what questions arise when applicants cannot easily see how decisions are made.
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The Quiet Expansion of Surveillance Infrastructure
A document-led examination of how cameras, sensors, and analytics can spread across public spaces through separate projects that are rarely viewed together.
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The Paperwork Behind a Failed Technology Rollout
Reconstructing how ambitious digital projects move from proposal to deployment, and where warning signs can disappear between teams.
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The Digital Forensics of a Disappearing Web Page
Exploring archives, cached records, version histories, and metadata to reconstruct information that vanished from an institutional website.
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The Contracts Behind a City’s Smart-City Ambition
Following technology procurement, data agreements, maintenance obligations, and vendor relationships across a connected urban program.
AI & Algorithms
The Accountability Gap in Automated Decision Systems
A detailed look at documentation, auditability, human review, and appeals when software participates in consequential decisions.
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The Hidden Infrastructure of Online Political Influence
Examining recommendation systems, advertising markets, content networks, and measurement tools without attributing hidden motives to individual actors.
AI & Algorithms
How Public Algorithms Become Impossible to Question
Examining procurement language, proprietary systems, documentation gaps, and appeal mechanisms that can make automated public decisions difficult to challenge.
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Inside the Global Business of Content Moderation
Investigating the labor, contracts, outsourcing arrangements, and performance metrics behind the systems that review online content.