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Can Algorithms Violate Fair Housing Laws?
Landlords increasingly use screening services to weed out renters. Advocates say both landlords and the algorithms should be accountable when things go wrong.
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The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data
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A Real-Time Website PrivacyInspector
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I Scanned the Websites I Visit with Blacklight, and It’s Horrifying. Now What?
You should probably switch browsers or add some privacyextensions
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What They Know … Now
The surveillance economy is getting creepier and more personal.
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How We Built a Real-time PrivacyInspector
Blacklight catalogs the many ways any website tracks visitors: from cookies to capturing every user keystroke and mouse movement
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Labeled “Research” Chemicals, Doping Drugs Sold Openly on Amazon.com
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides
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What Are Ghost Kitchens?
You think you just ordered pizza from a mom and pop, but it might be from Chuck E. Cheese
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Why Do Voting Machines Break on Election Day?
Power outages, paper jams, and ancient technology are more likely culprits than hackers