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The Government Segregated America. Here’s How Everyday People Desegregate It

A conversation with Richard and Leah Rothstein

Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data

Our Maps Don’t Know Where You Are

Blacklight Updated With New Tracker Lists

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Slow Internet? Find Out What Side of the Digital Divide You’re On

All you need to test for disparities in internet speeds and pricing is a computer, internet access, a Google account, and some free time

Investigation: Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service

Tool: See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet

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A Crucial Link in the Nation’s Organ Donation Process Is Failing

Regulators allowed many organ procurement nonprofits to falter—and now states are battling over scarce organs

Investigation: Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste

Show Your Work: How We Investigated UNOS’s Liver Allocation Policy

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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color

Newsletter: Stitching Your Own Safety Net

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See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet

Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in major U.S. cities

Tool: Introducing the United States Place Sampler (USPS)

Show Your Work: How We Uncovered Disparities in Internet Deals

Blacklight

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Update: Blacklight Updated With New Tracker Lists

As Seen In: Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data with Google (ProPublica)

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Journalists: Investigate Homeless Vulnerability Scoring in Your City

The survey we investigated was also used in dozens of other cities and counties, according to its creators. Here are our tips for looking into it

Investigation: L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores

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Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start

A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Finding Undocumented APIs

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In 2023, Resolve to Fix Your Organization’s Meta Pixel Problem

It’s time to be proactive about user privacy. Find out if you’re sending too much data to Facebook—or if you need to send data at all

Investigation: Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook

Journalists: Investigate Which Neighborhoods in Your City Are Offered the Worst Internet Deals

We analyzed more than 800,000 internet service offers in major U.S. cities. Here’s how you can use our data to report local stories

As Seen In: Low-income Memphians receive worse internet service for the same price (MLK50)

As Seen In: Detroit Is Paying Big Money for Slow Internet (Outlier Media)

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Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data

A proposed class-action lawsuit cites Markup reporting and claims the family-tracking app did not get user consent to sell location data

Investigation: The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users

Impact: Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data

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10 Million Blacklight Scans Later, Here’s What You Found

Our tool has been used to protect the privacy of medical patients, children, and numerous readers

Tool: Blacklight

Investigation: We Ran Tests on Every State’s COVID-19 Vaccine Website

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HHS Plans Breakup of Organ Transplant Monopoly

The move would disrupt the influence of contractor UNOS, whose control of organ sharing has been nearly all-encompassing for decades

Investigation: Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste

Investigation: How a Group of Health Executives Transformed the Liver Transplant System

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The Markup challenges technology to serve the public good.

This Just In

The Government Segregated America. Here’s How Everyday People Desegregate It

Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data

Our Maps Don’t Know Where You Are

Blacklight Updated With New Tracker Lists

Investigations

Slow Internet? Find Out What Side of the Digital Divide You’re On

A Crucial Link in the Nation’s Organ Donation Process Is Failing

False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

Tools

See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet

Blacklight

Blueprints

Journalists: Investigate Homeless Vulnerability Scoring in Your City

Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start

In 2023, Resolve to Fix Your Organization’s Meta Pixel Problem

Journalists: Investigate Which Neighborhoods in Your City Are Offered the Worst Internet Deals

Impact

Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data

10 Million Blacklight Scans Later, Here’s What You Found

HHS Plans Breakup of Organ Transplant Monopoly

Senators Launch Inquiry into Telehealth Companies for Tracking and Monetizing Personal Data

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