Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook (themarkup.org)
Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes (themarkup.org)
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data. (themarkup.org)
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)
The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College – The Markup (themarkup.org)
“After signing into their ACT account, if a student accepted cookies on the following page, Facebook received details on almost everything they clicked on—including scrambled but identifiable data like their first and last name, and whether they’re registering for the ACT. The site even registered clicks about a...
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)
What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers (themarkup.org)
“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard
Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data (themarkup.org)
Might be old news for some… TLDR: Some big online tax prep sites have tracker pixels from Meta and Google, which collect things like income, filing status, tax credits, etc....
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies (themarkup.org)
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’...
From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You (themarkup.org)
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences...
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” (themarkup.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/15657357...
Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (themarkup.org)
Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)
These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta (themarkup.org)
Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...
‘Let Me Tell Them Goodbye Before They Get Killed’: How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels” (themarkup.org)
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (themarkup.org)
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
Malfunctioning NYC AI Chatbot Still Active Despite Widespread Evidence It’s Encouraging Illegal Behavior (themarkup.org)
A death sentence: Native Americans have least access to liver transplant system (themarkup.org)
Despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are far less likely to make the transplant list than White people...
How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid (themarkup.org)
We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...
