Your Location Is a Universal Identifier
Hello, friends, For months now, The Markup reporters Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng have been investigating the little-known industry of …
Can Spyware Be Stopped?
Hello, friends, You may not believe me when I say this, but every year, spies and cops from governments around …
Congress Acts on Big Tech
Hello, friends, Congress has been busy with a flurry of tech industry legislation recently: On Jan. 20, the Senate Judiciary …
A Kinder, Gentler Social Network
Hello, friends, It was a bad week for Facebook. The social network reported Wednesday that it had lost daily users …
Is the Face the Final Frontier of Privacy?
Hello, friends, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has begun requiring users of some of its online services to submit a …
Privacy + Investigative Journalism
Hello, friends, The Markup is committed to both protecting the privacy of our readers and to publishing hard-hitting investigative journalism. …
The Big Business of Tracking and Profiling Students
Hello, friends, The United States is one of the few countries that does not have a federal baseline privacy law …
Fighting Disinformation Through the Courts
Last year at this time, thousands of protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to interrupt certification of the presidential …
Happy Holidays from The Markup
Hello, friends, Somehow 2021 feels like the longest year. We couldn’t break free of the pandemic. We couldn’t put the …
Meet the App That Is Selling Families’ Location Data
Hello, friends, Two months ago, we started digging into the little-known, roughly $12 billion industry that traffics in data about …
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