18.06.2026
Asylum by Algorithm
The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.
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Investigations
04.05.2026
Hiding Behind AI
How Kenya Used a Predictive Algorithm to Transfer Health Costs onto the Poorest
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19.02.2026
License to Profile
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed that nearly 200 people, “the worst of the worst illegal criminal aliens” were arrested in Nashville. Records reveal that Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE racially profiled drivers, and that majority had no criminal record.
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14.10.2025
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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16.06.2025
Two Factor Insecurity
How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money
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11.06.2025
The Limits of Ethical AI
Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI
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27.11.2024
Sweden’s Suspicion Machine
Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
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27.09.2024
Poison PR
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.
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27.02.2024
Automating Distrust
Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals
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04.12.2023
France’s Digital Inquisition
Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
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24.04.2023
Ethnic Profiling
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
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17.04.2023
Spain’s AI Doctor
Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
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06.03.2023
Suspicion Machines
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
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20.12.2022
The Algorithm Addiction
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban
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30.11.2022
Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
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05.10.2022
Tracking QAnon in Europe
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy
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28.08.2022
Revealing Europe's NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU
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25.06.2022
Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced
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03.06.2022
Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
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23.03.2022
Ukraine Exodus
Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees
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18.12.2021
Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating
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09.05.2023
The Instagarchs
How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media
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18.06.2026
Asylum by Algorithm
The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.
Published with
04.05.2026
Hiding Behind AI
How Kenya Used a Predictive Algorithm to Transfer Health Costs onto the Poorest
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19.02.2026
License to Profile
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed that nearly 200 people, “the worst of the worst illegal criminal aliens” were arrested in Nashville. Records reveal that Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE racially profiled drivers, and that majority had no criminal record.
Published with
14.10.2025
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
Published with
16.06.2025
Two Factor Insecurity
How Google, Amazon, Meta and thousands of other companies leave customers vulnerable over one-time codes to save time and money
Published with
11.06.2025
The Limits of Ethical AI
Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI
Published with
27.11.2024
Sweden’s Suspicion Machine
Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
Published with
27.09.2024
Poison PR
US taxpayers funded a covert campaign to downplay the risks of pesticides and discredit environmentalists in Africa, Europe, and North America.
Published with
27.02.2024
Automating Distrust
Digital profiling of Dutch low income, minority neighbourhoods spirals, series of local investigations reveals
Published with
04.12.2023
France’s Digital Inquisition
Taking apart the secretive fraud detection algorithm that scores half of France’s population but pursues the most vulnerable.
Published with
24.04.2023
Ethnic Profiling
Whistleblower reveals Netherlands’ use of secret and potentially illegal algorithm to score visa applicants
Published with
17.04.2023
Spain’s AI Doctor
Unpublished documents and inside sources give rare look into secretive AI system used to decide who is shirking work
Published with
06.03.2023
Suspicion Machines
Unprecedented experiment on welfare surveillance algorithm reveals discrimination
Published with
20.12.2022
The Algorithm Addiction
Mass profiling system SyRI resurfaces in the Netherlands despite ban
Published with
30.11.2022
Flight of the Predator
Private jet reveals business spyware web of Israeli tycoon from EU to Africa
Published with
05.10.2022
Tracking QAnon in Europe
Lighthouse and Bellingcat in data-driven investigation into viral conspiracy
Published with
28.08.2022
Revealing Europe's NSO
Uncovering major surveillance outfit operating from inside the EU
Published with
25.06.2022
Junk Science Underpins Fraud Scores
Crude software scoring vulnerable benefit claimants is random and prejudiced
Published with
03.06.2022
Europe Threatens Popular Encryption
Documents show governments seeking to hack services like Whatsapp and Signal
Published with
23.03.2022
Ukraine Exodus
Damaging double standards undermines Europe's response to Ukraine refugees
Published with
18.12.2021
Inside a Fraud Prediction Algorithm
Obtaining the source code Rotterdam uses to predict benefits cheating
Published with
09.05.2023
The Instagarchs
How the war in Ukraine and international sanctions upended the gilded world of Russia’s oligarch class – as seen through the prism of their social media
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