Blacklight – The Markup
Sep 22, 2020 · Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn. Hey researchers!
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not …
Sep 2, 2021 · In May, a group of Google users filed a federal class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the company is violating its claims to not sell personal information by operating its real-time bidding service.. The lawsuit argues that even though Google wasn’t directly handing over your personal data in …
Blacklight - The Markup
Sep 22, 2020 · Blacklight. Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
The Shadows of Removed Posts Are Hiding in Plain Sight on Reddit
Dec 16, 2021 · Caption: Moderator-removed reposts, like this one from r/goldenretrievers, are still visible on the site in moderators' comment histories. For example, the subreddit-specific rules of r/TikTokThots, a subreddit dedicated to sexualized TikTok videos, explicitly instruct users not to post videos of people presumed to be under 18, in keeping with the …
Should Doxing Be Illegal? – The Markup
Aug 17, 2021 · Lauren Krapf, the technology policy and advocacy counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, argues there are ways to craft anti-doxing laws that don’t harm whistleblowers. Under the proposed Nebraska law, doxing is only illegal if the perpetrator intends to cause harm by releasing information, or accidentally causes harm through recklessness.
The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching
Mar 22, 2024 · Since at least 2019, DHS has been gradually and increasingly integrating AI and other advanced machine learning into its operations, including border security, cybersecurity, threat detection, and disaster response, according to the department’s AI Inventory.Some specific uses include image generation and detection, geospatial imagery, identity verification, border trade tracking, biometrics ...
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can …
Mar 11, 2024 · Even back then, those videos—96 percent of which had nonconsensual pornography of women—had garnered over 100 million views. Goldberg said policymakers and the public alike seem to be more motivated to ban AI-generated nude images specifically because virtually anyone can be a victim. There’s more empathy.
About Us - The Markup
The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. We are a new kind of media organization, staffed with an unparalleled roster of quantitative journalists who pursue meaningful, data-driven investigations. Our approach is scientific: We build datasets from scratch ...
Introducing Simple Search – The Markup
Nov 10, 2020 · Simple Search. Simple Search is an extension that highlights the “traditional” or “ten blue link” search results provided by the search engine, laying them over the info boxes and other content. Close the window to view the full results page. Compatible with Bing and Google search engines. Firefox Chrome. We built a browser extension ...
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring …
Aug 10, 2024 · Caption: Francisco Lara-García My conversation with Lara-García has been edited for brevity and clarity. Lara-García: One thing that is kind of a paradox about living and having lived on the border is that there are moments when you can’t not be aware of the intense amount of enforcement and surveillance and activity across the border. But at the same time, it also just becomes a fabric ...