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How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

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How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?

WIRED’s editor in chief reflects on how digital surveillance infrastructure could be used to prosecute abortion, plus more thoughts on this month’s headlines.
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This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to roll out its services as widely and quickly as possible. Of course, the company can blame its disgraced former CEO. “We ask the public to judge us by what we’ve done in the last five years,” reads its pious-sounding statement. Where do you come down on this? Should Uber have paid a higher price for its actions? Or was moving fast and breaking things the only way to disrupt the taxi industry? Chime in in the comments. Meanwhile, here’s this month's update.

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