About Us - The Markup
WEBThe 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 ...
Blacklight – The Markup
WEBSep 22, 2020 · 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. Blacklight normally takes between 30 seconds and one minute to finish all tests. Is this website sending data about users to advertising companies ...
What Are Geofence Warrants? - The Markup
WEBSep 1, 2020 · A traditional search warrant for a car or a house or a laptop typically targets a specific person police have probable cause to suspect of a crime. Geofence warrants allow law enforcement officers to search when they don’t have a potential suspect. Geofencing itself simply means drawing a virtual border around a predefined geographical area.
Blacklight - The Markup
WEBSep 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
What Does the “Connection Not Private” Warning Really Mean?
WEBMar 8, 2022 · Possibly. The Connection Not Private window could be triggered by a poorly configured certificate, one that’s only recently expired, or one that’s missing entirely. Visiting websites that don’t have proper encryption can put you at risk for a number of cyberthreats. Your information could be intercepted as it travels across the internet ...
When Is Anonymous Not Really Anonymous? – The Markup
WEBMar 24, 2020 · As COVID-19 spreads to 50 states this month, the U.S. government is in talks with tech companies including Google and Facebook about possibly using location data from Americans’ cellphones to track the spread of the coronavirus, The Washington Post has reported.. Public health officials are exploring whether the data could help them understand how the virus is spreading, which hospitals are ...
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
WEBSep 30, 2021 · An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many players: collectors, aggregators, marketplaces, and location intelligence firms, all of which boast about the scale and precision of the data that they’ve amassed. Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real ...
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not …
WEBSep 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 exchange for money, its ...
California May Be the First State to Legislate Amazon Warehouse ...
WEBSep 13, 2021 · The California Senate passed legislation last week that, if signed by the governor, would prohibit a spectrum of employers, including Amazon, from firing warehouse workers like Barrera for policies such as “time off task.”. The bill, AB 701, would be the first law in the country to address productivity quotas and strict algometric metrics ...
I Tried to Use the Ad Tech Industry’s Tool to Opt Out of …
WEBMar 25, 2021 · The DAA’s opt-out portal has been criticized practically since it launched in 2010. A 2011 Carnegie Mellon University study tracked dozens of users as they attempted to navigate the process, identifying a host of issues: “Initial configuration took a long time. Difficult to navigate to actual opt-out page.