Todd Feathers

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Freelance investigative data journalist. Writing about technology, education, and privacy. toddfeathers.com

A map of toledo with the 12 affordable housing complexes surrounded by half-mile yellow buffers. Crimes are represented on the map by red dots (indicating homicides), purple dots (indicating reports of shootings), and orange dots (indicating other crimes). The map shows that crime was distributed throughout Toledo and not primarily near the affordable housing complexes.
A photograph of a playground with a swing set and slide surrounded by tan, two-story apartment buildings. In the foreground is a silver telephone pole with a surveillance camera sticking out toward the playground.
A headline from Newsweek rading "What a Second Donald Trump Term Would Look Like, According to ChatGPT, Grok"
Sea turtle carved from wood
The tweet in question was sent out by a new third party vendor that shared inaccurate information and has since been asked to halt their work. No transactions or sharing of content occurred by the vendor. Student data was not and has never been for sale by the University of Michigan. The content referenced in the tweet includes papers and speech recordings that had been voluntarily contributed by student volunteers participating, under signed consent, in two research studies, one in 1997 - 2000, and a second in 2006 - 2007. None of the papers or recordings included identifying information, such as names or other personal data. These particular papers and recordings have long been available for free to academics – again without any identifying information – and have been used as a tool to improve writing and articulation in education.