Primary documents
- Association Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Kira E. Riehm et al.
Among 6,595 adolescents, adjusted internalizing-problem relative-risk ratios were 1.60 for more than 3 to 6 hours and 1.78 for more than 6 hours versus no use;…
- Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
Maria T. Maza et al.
The three-year cohort included 169 sixth- and seventh-grade students from three rural North Carolina schools. Checking was self-reported at wave 1; annual fMRI showed different neural…
- Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
John S. Hutton et al.
This cross-sectional study involved 47 healthy children aged 3–5. Higher ScreenQ scores were associated with lower measures of white-matter organization and corresponding cognitive measures; some cognitive…
- Attention Spans: Consumer Insights, Microsoft Canada
Document · 2015
Microsoft Canada
The marketing report displays 12 seconds for 2000, 8 seconds for 2013, and 9 seconds for a goldfish, visibly citing “Statistic brain.”
- Authorizing the settlement of claims brought in Brandon Upchurch v. City of Toledo, et al.; authorizing the expenditure of $35,000 from the Risk Management Fund; and declaring an emergency
Government Record · 2025
City of Toledo Department of Law
Toledo City Council's 2025 ordinance authorizing a $35,000 settlement with Brandon Upchurch, who sued after a police K-9 bit him during a traffic stop.
- Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Policy Brief
Document · 2026
Illinois State Association of Counties
Illinois State Association of Counties policy brief (August 2026) summarizing pending Illinois plate reader bills and existing law.
- Automated License Plate Readers
Government Record · 2025
Village of Oak Park
Village of Oak Park: the board voted in August 2025 to end its Flock contract immediately.
- Automated License Plate Readers Market Survey Report
Government Record · 2025
Hasan Shahid; Steven Miller; Eric Morefield; National Urban Security Technology Laboratory
DHS's 2025 market survey of plate reader products. It states that product performance claims in the report have not been independently verified.
- Automated License Plate Readers: State Statutes
Document
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Conference of State Legislatures' compilation of state plate reader laws, including Illinois.
- Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Transparency Page
Government Record
Illinois State Police
Illinois State Police plate reader transparency page: the Expressway Camera Act took effect January 1, 2020; 808 cameras installed; reads kept up to 90 days.
- Axon announces new fixed ALPR camera solutions and next-gen AI advancements
Document · 2025
Axon Enterprise
Axon's April 2025 announcement of new fixed plate-reader cameras, including Lightpost, which mounts on existing streetlights and connects to Axon's Fusus platform.
- Axon Announces TASER Drone Development to Address Mass Shootings
Document · 2022
Axon Enterprise / Rick Smith
Axon's June 2022 announcement, after Uvalde, that it was developing a Taser-armed drone. The release itself admits most of its AI Ethics Board advised against it.
- Bernstein: The CIA and the Media, Rolling Stone (1977)
News Report · 1977
Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone, October 1977: reports that CIA ties to the press were closest with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc., according…
- Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis
Transcript · 2024
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Senator Hawley cited self-reports of 37% unwanted nudity exposure, 24% unwanted sexual advances, and 17% self-harm content among girls aged 13–15. Zuckerberg disputed Hawley’s broader characterization…
- Black Mirror, Nosedive (2016): release record
Document · 2016
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: the Black Mirror episode Nosedive aired on Netflix October 21, 2016.
- Black Mirror: Nosedive (episode)
Government Record · 2016
New Zealand Classification Office
New Zealand's Classification Office on Nosedive: a world where people are rated and ranked by everyone they deal with.
- Booz Allen Announces Partnership with Andreessen Horowitz to Accelerate and Scale Advanced Technology for Governments
Document · 2026
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton's January 2026 announcement that it became Andreessen Horowitz's first technology partner for governments, working across the a16z portfolio, which includes Flock.
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light
Government Record · 2022
Federal Trade Commission staff
The staff report discusses design practices that induce false beliefs, hide or delay material information, impose unauthorized charges, or obscure privacy choices.
- California Automated License Plate Reader Data Guidance, Bulletin 2023-DLE-06
Government Record · 2023
California Department of Justice
California Attorney General's 2023 bulletin: police may not share plate reader data with private companies, out-of-state agencies or federal agencies.
- California Civil Code §1798.90.5
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California's plate reader law definitions (SB 34), including what counts as a public agency.
- California Civil Code §1798.90.54
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California law letting people harmed by misuse of plate reader data sue, with at least $2,500 in damages.
- California Civil Code §1798.90.55
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California law barring public agencies from selling, sharing or transferring plate reader data except to other California public agencies.
- California Vehicle Code §2413
Government Record
California Legislative Counsel
California Vehicle Code 2413, which limits the California Highway Patrol to 60 days of plate data except for evidence or felony investigations.
- Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296
Court Filing · 2018
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court held acquisition of seven days or more of historical cell-site location information was a Fourth Amendment search generally requiring a warrant. It expressly did…