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 …
The Disparate Impact of Predictive Policing Software
Hello, friends, This week we published an investigation that was a year and a half in the making: a deep …
Giving Thanks
Hello, friends, This week we are celebrating gratitude in the U.S. And so, if you will indulge me, I would …
What’s Really Trending on Facebook
Hello, friends, When Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was asked what she would do if she could only do one thing …
Is There a Tech Cold War with China?
Hello, friends, There is a narrative in Washington, D.C., that we are in the midst of a tech cold war …
Fighting Government Secrecy About Surveillance
Hello, friends, Every year, the federal judiciary publishes a record of how many wiretaps were conducted in the United States. …
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