On April 8th, 2016, the City of Cleveland received a $49-million dollar federal grant from the Department of Justice for security surrounding the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC). The City of Cleveland was able to receive this grant because the RNC is considered a National…

Unicorn Riot can report that the Panama-based offshore specialist law firm Mossack Fonseca has set up its customer portal with very incorrect server settings, inadvertently publishing much of its source code to the public with no barriers to casual browsers. We can state with certainty…

For our story about the Denver Police Department’s use of the surveillance analytics software program Analyst’s Notebook, we were happy to be able to speak by telephone with Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union.  He answered some questions for us about…