LevelUp

Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid

We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone

Privacy

Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching

Hello World

It Isn’t News, It’s Just Sand

Welcome to the era of news mirages

How Certain Algorithms to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

18th-century German forest management explains why government websites make you want to pull your hair out

Still Loading

What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South 

Across the rural South, about 38% of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than White people in the same region and the national average

Hello World

On Conflict and Connection

Mirna El Helbawi’s eSIM campaign, in her own words

Machine Learning

How to Keep Your Personal Data a Little More Private While Pursuing Higher Education

Tips for students, gleaned from our investigation into data collection by colleges

Machine Learning

He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None

A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, including homework trackers, test-taking software, and even license plate readers

Privacy

Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta

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

Pixel Hunt

Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College

An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college