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Google employees face health risks from Superfund site’s toxic vapors
Elevated levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, were found at Google’s satellite campus in Mountain View. The chemical is known to cause cancer and birth defects. Credit: David Paredes/NBC Bay...
View ArticleWhite Sox, Bulls chairman starts security firm with former Secret Service...
The chairman of the Chicago White Sox and Bulls is going into the global security business with an eclectic and controversial group of partners tied to the Obama administration, documents and...
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Government secrecy orders on patents keep lid on inventions
This photo illustration is based on James Greer's patent application for technology that could detect objects, including stealth aircraft. He lived under a secrecy order for eight years. Credit: Jaena...
View ArticleWorld Information Society Day highlights technology's challenges
After a week in which the phone lines of the Associated Press were bugged and Google glasses that can record our every move are being tested, it seems fitting to mark World Information Society Day....
View ArticleCalif. agencies often fail to protect confidential information, data shows
When a thief rang up $2,000 in charges at Victoria’s Secret, Gymboree and Gap on Rosa Franco’s credit card, she quickly surmised the reason – the state of California had mistakenly left her credit card...
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Firm tied to Willie Brown gets political boost for Hunters Point plan
Click for larger image Former Mayor Willie Brown speaks during the Hunters Point groundbreaking. On its website and in company brochures, the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Center refers to Brown as a...
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Visual.ly, CIR to support winning TechRaking III concept
The Center for Investigative Reporting is pleased to announce that Visual.ly, a community platform for data visualization and infographics, will be donating $10,000 in development time to help produce...
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Subprime lending execs back in business 5 years after crash
Click for larger image Financial company executives testify before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in 2007. At the time, Andy Pollock (far right) was president of First Franklin, a subprime mortgage...
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Meet the lawyer who keeps some of America's worst charities in business
*/ Update, Sept. 12, 2013: This story updates information about Civic Development Group.Errol Copilevitz started his legal career representing strip clubs and porn shops on the seedy side of Kansas...
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Easily obtained subpoenas turn your personal information against you
For some, revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting vast amounts of personal information on U.S. citizens might seem as far removed as the city of Moscow.But it’s not just an...
View ArticleLet research apps, MVC JavaScript and APIs work for you
When a large, national data set showing a massive increase in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ opiate prescription rates landed on our desks in August, we asked ourselves the same question that...
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What does the news sound like? TechRaking Four looks to the clouds
Click for larger imageCredit: OAndrews/Flickr.comIn 1964, Johnny Cash sang, “Good news travels slow.” It would be 30-some-odd years before the Internet would reveal the breadth of its abilities and...
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Facial recognition, once a battlefield tool, lands in San Diego County
Click for larger image Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department in California, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County...
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Ask us anything about local surveillance technology
Click for larger image A license-plate reader mounted on a San Leandro Police Department car can log thousands of plates in an eight-hour patrol shift. “It works 100 times better than driving around...
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Here's how local police can tap into your cellphone data
Click for larger imageCellphone towers are one tool police agencies may try to use to collect data from your mobile phone. Credit: Christian Delbert/ShutterstockThe Center for Investigative Reporting...
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EPA’s fast-track approval process for pesticides raises health concerns
Click for larger image The EPA, headquartered in the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, says it has enough data on pesticide Nanosilva to know that it’s safe while the manufacturer finishes...
View ArticleBeyond rows and columns: Tracing the evolution of data journalism
For decades, the tools used by data scientists have provided the backbone for important stories that effected change.The Center for Investigative Reporting now in the midst of the sixth TechRaking...
View ArticleCIR takes a deep dive into the surveillance of ordinary Americans
There’s a great term for the way the government and other big organizations work.It’s “creeping incrementalism.”Surveillance of ordinary Americans is happening right now across the country. Local...
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Hollywood-style surveillance technology inches closer to reality
COMPTON, Calif. – When sheriff’s deputies here noticed a burst of necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force...
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