Show Your WorkBlacklight

How We Built a Real-time Privacy Inspector

Blacklight catalogs the many ways any website tracks visitors: from cookies to capturing every user keystroke and mouse movement

Blacklight

What They Know … Now

The surveillance economy is getting creepier and more personal

Blacklight

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

The BreakdownBlacklight

I Scanned the Websites I Visit with Blacklight, and It’s Horrifying. Now What?

You should probably switch browsers or add some privacy extensions

Banned Bounty

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

The Breakdown

What Are Ghost Kitchens?

You think you just ordered pizza from a mom and pop, but it might be from Chuck E. Cheese

The BreakdownElection 2020

Why Do Voting Machines Break on Election Day?

Power outages, paper jams, and ancient technology are more likely culprits than hackers

Coronavirus

Schools Are Buying Up Surveillance Technology to Fight COVID-19

But will it actually prevent an outbreak?

Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off?

If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes

The Breakdown

What Are Geofence Warrants?

Location data on your smartphone is giving law enforcement new surveillance tools