Machine Learning
This Private Equity Firm Is Amassing Companies That Collect Data on America’s Children
Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data
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Citizen Browser
One Year After the Capitol Riot, Americans Still See Two Very Different Facebooks
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser shows the platform’s partisan divide continues
News
Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms
Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful
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Public Agencies Are Buying Up AI-Driven Hiring Tools and “Bossware”
The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software
Working for an Algorithm
Amazon Is Rolling Back COVID Protocols in Its Warehouses. Workers Say It’s Premature
Two Oregon warehouses have been in an active outbreak for nearly 19 months. Elsewhere in the country, warehouse workers report continual cases
Locked Out
The Markup’s Work Cited in Effort to Outlaw Discriminatory Algorithms
Investigation on tenant screening used to illustrate needed reforms
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The Shadows of Removed Posts Are Hiding in Plain Sight on Reddit
Offending posts—including sexually explicit images—linger in comment histories long after their removal from subreddits
Privacy
Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight
For years researchers have called out the Wiretap Report for being outdated and incomplete
Denied
Legislators, Regulators Call for Additional Scrutiny of Mortgage-Lending Industry After Markup Investigation Finds Disparities
Minnesota attorney general warns lenders: Don’t be surprised if you’re investigated
Privacy
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
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