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Temple Tattoo moves on: Beloved Oakland institution begins next chapter in Temescal

Temple Tattoo moves on: Beloved Oakland institution begins next chapter in Temescal

San Francisco Chronicle

Ed Hardy’s legendary S.F. tattoo shop is shutting down, but fans can still get inked by former employees. Here’s how

Ed Hardy’s legendary S.F. tattoo shop is shutting down, but fans can still get inked by former employees. Here’s how

San Francisco Chronicle

Ed Hardy’s S.F. tattoo shop changed the industry forever. Many are making a pilgrimage before it closes in December

Ed Hardy’s S.F. tattoo shop changed the industry forever. Many are making a pilgrimage before it closes in December

San Francisco Chronicle

Trace Ed Hardy’s global influence on tattoo design, roots in San Francisco with this timeline

Trace Ed Hardy’s global influence on tattoo design, roots in San Francisco with this timeline

San Francisco Chronicle

Remembering Scott Weeks

Remembering Scott Weeks

Metro Silicon Valley

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Marks of Art Tattoo Celebrates 30 Years of Skin in the Game

Marks of Art Tattoo Celebrates 30 Years of Skin in the Game

Metro Silicon Valley

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LDS Church as venture capitalist: Here’s a glimpse into where it invests in innovation

LDS Church as venture capitalist: Here’s a glimpse into where it invests in innovation

The Salt Lake Tribune

Ed Hardy’s dragon scroll returns to San Francisco

Ed Hardy’s dragon scroll returns to San Francisco

San Francisco Chronicle

Tattoo 408

Tattoo 408

Self-produced podcast

Abraham Ortega: Tatuajes Chicanos

Abraham Ortega: Tatuajes Chicanos

Content Magazine

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‘LVLZ’ Captures mint.beats at their Freshest

‘LVLZ’ Captures mint.beats at their Freshest

Metro Silicon Valley

Sefa Samatua: A modern spin on traditional Samoan tattooing

Sefa Samatua: A modern spin on traditional Samoan tattooing

Content Magazine

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'Any Given Bars' Highlights the Flow of San Jo'

‘Any Given Bars’ Highlights the Flow of San Jo’

Metro Silicon Valley

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San Jose Tattoo Legend Pinky Yun Inspires New Book

San Jose Tattoo Legend Pinky Yun Inspires New Book

Metro Silicon Valley

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Nappy Nina Comes to Collect on 'Mourning Due'

Nappy Nina Comes to Collect on ‘Mourning Due’

Metro Silicon Valley

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Danny Fernandez: How Santa Cruz helped one artist find his potential

Danny Fernandez: How Santa Cruz helped one artist find his potential

Content Magazine

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Five Years of Dad Bod Rap Pod

Five Years of Dad Bod Rap Pod

Metro Silicon Valley

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Lacey Bryant Presents Her New 9,450-Square-foot Mural

Lacey Bryant Presents Her New 9,450-Square-foot Mural

Metro Silicon Valley

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Mint.Beats and Gatsby Collaborate on New Album

Mint.Beats and Gatsby Collaborate on New Album

Metro Silicon Valley

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Weezmatic Headlines Slap Box Following New Album

Weezmatic Headlines Slap Box Following New Album

Metro Silicon Valley

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Strength in Members: The woman behind San Jose Strong now has her sights set on developing an app for San Joseans

Strength in Members: The woman behind San Jose Strong now has her sights set on developing an app for San Joseans

Metro Silicon Valley

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The 'Capital of Silicon Valley' Is Ignoring Its Privacy Experts

The ‘Capital of Silicon Valley’ Is Ignoring Its Privacy Experts

VICE Motherboard

San Jose Organizations Protest for Reproductive Rights

San Jose Organizations Protest for Reproductive Rights

Metro Silicon Valley

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San Jose Walls Present New Murals at Guadalupe River Park

San Jose Walls Present New Murals at Guadalupe River Park

Metro Silicon Valley

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Fox Tale Fermentation Project brings unique brews to San Jose

Fox Tale Fermentation Project brings unique brews to San Jose

San Jose Spotlight

Christian Rivera Nolan’s Long Way Home: Local poet’s journey of self discovery (and publishing)

Christian Rivera Nolan’s Long Way Home: Local poet’s journey of self discovery (and publishing)

Metro Silicon Valley

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LDS Church has Most Valuable Private Real Estate Portfolio in the US, Evidence Suggests

LDS Church has Most Valuable Private Real Estate Portfolio in the US, Evidence Suggests

Truth & Transparency

Body of Work: How a San Jose tattoo parlor rose to international acclaim

Body of Work: How a San Jose tattoo parlor rose to international acclaim

Metro Silicon Valley

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Flock Catchers: As San Jose moves ahead with ALPRs, privacy experts keep their eyes open

Flock Catchers: As San Jose moves ahead with ALPRs, privacy experts keep their eyes open

Metro Silicon Valley

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Salt Lake City Folk-Rockers the National Parks is on the Rise

Salt Lake City Folk-Rockers the National Parks is on the Rise

Good Times Santa Cruz

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The Fire of Truth: HERO Tent's communal traveling mural dedicated to Black women organizers

The Fire of Truth: HERO Tent’s communal traveling mural dedicated to Black women organizers

Metro Silicon Valley

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San Jose City Council Unanimously Approves Automatic License Plate Reader Expansion

San Jose City Council Unanimously Approves Automatic License Plate Reader Expansion

Metro Silicon Valley/San Jose Inside

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These Young Black Activists Are Keeping the Fight for Social Justice Alive in San Jose

These Young Black Activists Are Keeping the Fight for Social Justice Alive in San Jose

Metro Silicon Valley/San Jose Inside

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Civil Rights Issues Related to Artificial Intelligence Are Focus of San Jose State Panel

Civil Rights Issues Related to Artificial Intelligence Are Focus of San Jose State Panel

Metro Silicon Valley/San Jose Inside

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What is predictive policing and why is it dangerous?

What is predictive policing and why is it dangerous?

San Jose Spotlight

Downtown San Jose pizza shop under new ownership after abuse allegations

Downtown San Jose pizza shop under new ownership after abuse allegations

San Jose Spotlight

Explaining San Jose’s partnership with Helium

Explaining San Jose’s partnership with Helium

San Jose Spotlight

Modern community surveillance threatens our human rights

Modern community surveillance threatens our human rights

San Jose Spotlight

Gunshot detection tech will lead to more police killings in San Jose

Gunshot detection tech will lead to more police killings in San Jose

San Jose Spotlight

San Jose police doesn’t know what it’s doing with its own tech

San Jose police doesn’t know what it’s doing with its own tech

San Jose Spotlight

Downtown San Jose bar owner resigns amid #MeToo accusations of sexual abuse

Downtown San Jose bar owner resigns amid #MeToo accusations of sexual abuse

San Jose Spotlight

Silicon Valley residents must help ban surveillance advertising

Silicon Valley residents must help ban surveillance advertising

San Jose Spotlight

Privacy is a human right. San Jose should treat it as such.

Privacy is a human right. San Jose should treat it as such.

San Jose Spotlight

True police reform requires regulating surveillance tech, San Jose

True police reform requires regulating surveillance tech, San Jose

San Jose Spotlight

Mormon Church Moves Public Stock Holdings to Single Entity

Mormon Church Moves Public Stock Holdings to Single Entity

Truth & Transparency

Mormon-tied Public Holdings Near $35 Billion; Venture Capital Investments in Pharma and Tech Companies Discovered

Mormon-tied Public Holdings Near $35 Billion; Venture Capital Investments in Pharma and Tech Companies Discovered

Truth & Transparency

2019 Jehovah’s Witness Convention Videos Published Again After Successful Takedown Request

Truth & Transparency

Jehovah's Witnesses Overhaul Proselytizing Procedures in Response to EU Regulation

Jehovah’s Witnesses Overhaul Proselytizing Procedures in Response to EU Regulation

Truth & Transparency

Decades of Letters Addressed to Jehovah’s Witness Leaders in Brazil and Portugal Now Published Online

Truth & Transparency

Atlassian Adopts Bug Bounty Safe Harbor to Further Enable Researchers

Atlassian Community, Trust & Security

'The Church has always been anti-gay'; LGBT Community Reacts in the Wake of Mormon Policy Rescission

‘The Church has always been anti-gay’; LGBT Community Reacts in the Wake of Mormon Policy Rescission

Truth & Transparency

Director of Mormon Temple Videos Charged with First Degree Sexual Abuse of a Child

Director of Mormon Temple Videos Charged with First Degree Sexual Abuse of a Child

Truth & Transparency

Sandy Police Investigating Van Wagenen for Second Instance of Sex Abuse

Truth & Transparency

BYU Religion Professor Guilty of Plagiarism; University Yet to Take Action

BYU Religion Professor Guilty of Plagiarism; University Yet to Take Action

Truth & Transparency

Interview With Police Reveals Small Discrepancy in Sterling Van Wagenen’s Story

Truth & Transparency

Leaked ‘Branch’ and ‘Elders’ Manuals Pull Back the Curtain of Inner Workings of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Top Leaders

Truth & Transparency

Director of Mormon Temple Videos and Sundance Festival Co-founder Admits to Child Molestation in Early 90s

Director of Mormon Temple Videos and Sundance Festival Co-founder Admits to Child Molestation in Early 90s

Truth & Transparency

Truth & Transparency Receives Four Takedown Requests from Jehovah’s Witnesses

Truth & Transparency

The Case Against Utah’s Clergy Exemption

The Utah Bee

Evolving Our Trusted Bounty Program: Twilio Adds Safe Harbor to Bug Bounty

Twilio Blog

Commentary: Two Mormon petitions show the contrasting priorities of members

The Salt Lake Tribune

Commentary: The gaslighting within Mormonism must stop

The Salt Lake Tribune

A critical response to the Deseret News from MormonLeaks

Deseret News

Public Speaking

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Ask the Truth and Transparency Foundation

Sunstone Symposium

Scrubber: An open source compilation to protect journalistic sources

Scrubber: An open source compilation to protect journalistic sources

Defcon Crypto & Privacy Village

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Missteps in the Path to Religious Transparency

Missteps in the Path to Religious Transparency

Defcon Skytalks

The Fight For Religious Transparency on the Electronic Frontier

The Fight For Religious Transparency on the Electronic Frontier

EFF Austin Meetup

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How WHOIS Data Uncovered $32 Billion Connected to the Mormon Church

How WHOIS Data Uncovered $32 Billion Connected to the Mormon Church

Defcon Recon Village

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From MormonLeaks to FaithLeaks

From MormonLeaks to FaithLeaks

Defcon Skytalks

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The History of Transparency and Censorship within the LDS Church

Sunstone Symposium

MormonLeaks: The LDS Church and Transparency

Sunstone Symposium

Inside MormonLeaks (as Privacy P. Pratt)

Defcon Skytalks

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An Introduction to MormonLeaks (as Privacy P. Pratt)

Sunstone Symposium

Inside MormonLeaks (as Privacy P. Pratt)

BSidesLV (Underground)

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Protecting Your Brand With Defensive OSINT Tactics

SAINTCon

Wrestling With Yourself: Dealing With Impostor Syndrome in InfoSec

SAINTCon

Googling Like a Boss: Expanding the Powers of OSINT

BSidesSLC

Digital Intelligence Gathering: Using the Powers of OSINT for Both Blue and Red Teams

Digital Intelligence Gathering: Using the Powers of OSINT for Both Blue and Red Teams

BSidesSF

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Infosec: Up and Running

SAINTCon

Security Onions and Honeypotz

BSidesSLC

Interviews

Some interviews likely have aged better than others, but allowing myself room to grow is important to my authenticity

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Utah's SEC office closure and more on Behind the Headlines

Utah’s SEC office closure and more on Behind the Headlines

Utah Public Radio

Ethan Gregory Dodge + losing my (Mormon) religion

Real Mother Fuckers

The co-founders of MormonLeaks discuss their four-year ride exposing secrets

Mormon Land

Little Brother Episode 80

Little Brother

Policing & Surveillance w/ Ethan Gregory Dodge + Inflation Hysteria

The Concerned Minority

Truth and Transparancy with Ethan Dodge and Tracie Harris

Left at the Valley

Between Truth and Transparency

The Right to Reason

Truth & Transparency

The Phil Ferguson Show

The Non-Prophets 18.04 with Denis Loubet, Jamie Boone, Kevin Stein, & Ethan Gregory Dodge

The Non-Prohphets

Sunstone Podcast Episode 6: An Interview with the Truth and Transparency Foundation

Sunstone Podcast

Godless Bitches 04.14 with Clare Wuellner, Jen Peeples, Tracie Harris, & Ethan Dodge

Godless Bitches

A Q&A with MormonLeaks officials and their quest to expose the faith’s secrets

Mormon Land

Interview w/Ethan Dodge, Sam’s Hunger Strike Update, and BYU’s Amnesty Loophole

Mormon Happy Hour

Financial Transparency w/MormonLeaks & Gay Wedding Bliss

Mormon Happy Hour

MormonLeaks.io Ethan Dodge A Mormonfan Interveiw

Mormonfan

The men of MormonLeaks — Why they do it and what they’re after (Full interview)

KUTV 2News

Breaking Interview w/Ethan Dodge of MormonLeaks on Joseph Bishop Sexual Assault Leak

Mormon Happy Hour

Curling, Canadians, Cults and More w/ Ethan Dodge of FaithLeaks

SarahTalk

MormonLeaks Minute Episode 87

Naked Mormonism

The Palmer Leak Episode 8

Watchtower: In Focus

Episode #22: Week of 4 December 2017

Mormon News Report

MormonLeaks Minute Episode 72

Naked Mormonism

MormonLeaks: Privacy Pratt Revealed

Infants on Thrones

MormonLeaks

Infants on Thrones

Selected Press Mentions

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Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser

Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser

Flatwater Free Press

After exposing LDS Church wealth, apostle pay and abuse allegations, this nonprofit is shutting down

After exposing LDS Church wealth, apostle pay and abuse allegations, this nonprofit is shutting down

The Salt Lake Tribune

How the latest data on the LDS Church’s landholdings came to be

How the latest data on the LDS Church’s landholdings came to be

The Salt Lake Tribune

New database gives widest look ever at LDS Church landholdings. See what it owns and where.

New database gives widest look ever at LDS Church landholdings. See what it owns and where.

The Salt Lake Tribune

San Jose gunshot detection system trial has some fearing it could target minorities

Local News Matters

San Jose activists, councilmember push surveillance regulation

San Jose Spotlight

Why FaithLeaks had to Delete More than 23,000 Files on Jehovah's Witnesses

Why FaithLeaks had to Delete More than 23,000 Files on Jehovah’s Witnesses

Fædrelandsvennen

MormonLeaks founders pay $15,000 to settle copyright suit with the Jehovah’s Witnesses'

Salt Lake Tribune

Safe harbor needs to be built to provide haven for ethical hackers

The Daily Swig

Confronting a Childhood Abuser

Confronting a Childhood Abuser

The New York Times Daily Podcast

How an Abuse Victim’s Nerve and a Hidden iPhone Led to the Arrest of a Sundance Founder

How an Abuse Victim’s Nerve and a Hidden iPhone Led to the Arrest of a Sundance Founder

The New York Times

New Bill by Senator Jerry Hill Requires Clergy to Report Child Abuse and Neglect Under Any Circumstances

Senator Jerry Hill’s Office

FaithLeaks Welcomes More Churches

Fædrelandsvennen

Jehovah’s Witnesses Lawyer Demands Takedown of Documents from FaithLeaks

The Friendly Atheist

The Blue Envelopes

The Blue Envelopes

Fædrelandsvennen

Best of Utah 2018: Best Transparency Crusaders

Salt Lake City Weekly

El limite de la confesión

Telemundo Utah

Sacred Cow: MormonLeaks team puts its transparency crusade into historical context

Salt Lake City Weekly

Latter-day Leaks: Inside Ryan McKnight’s crusade for transparency within the LDS Church

Salt Lake City Weekly

The men of MormonLeaks — Why they do it and what they’re after

The men of MormonLeaks — Why they do it and what they’re after

KUTV 2News

New Whistleblower Site FaithLeaks Releases Confidential Documents About Child Sexual Abuse in Jehovah’s Witnesses Community

New Whistleblower Site FaithLeaks Releases Confidential Documents About Child Sexual Abuse in Jehovah’s Witnesses Community

Gizmodo

Does Your Church Have Secrets? FaithLeaks Wants To Know All About Them

The Friendly Atheist

Memo to all religions: MormonLeaks may be coming after you with new FaithLeaks site

Salt Lake Tribune

MormonLeaks Goes to Battle With Mormon Church Over Leaked 'Enemy List'

MormonLeaks Goes to Battle With Mormon Church Over Leaked ‘Enemy List’

Gizmodo

MormonLeaks website squares off with Mormon Church, posts leaked ‘Enemies List’

MormonLeaks website squares off with Mormon Church, posts leaked ‘Enemies List’

Washington Post