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How Private Is My Pay App?
The pandemic has more people using apps like Venmo and PayPal. But not all pay apps treat data privacy equally
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Why Can’t I Fix My Own Phone, Toaster, or Tractor?
Manufacturers in a broad range of industries have a monopoly on who repairs machines—and when devices are deemedunfixable
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Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You?
Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying
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I Scanned My Favorite Social Media Site on Blacklight and It Came Up Pretty Clean. What’s Going On?
Ain't no tracking like first-party tracking ’cause first-party tracking don’t stop
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Which Face Masks Actually Work AgainstCOVID-19?
Lots of products advertise protective qualities but not all of them are backed by science
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I Scanned the Websites I Visit with Blacklight, and It’s Horrifying. Now What?
You should probably switch browsers or add some privacyextensions
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What Are Ghost Kitchens?
You think you just ordered pizza from a mom and pop, but it might be from Chuck E. Cheese
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Why Do Voting Machines Break on Election Day?
Power outages, paper jams, and ancient technology are more likely culprits than hackers
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What Are Geofence Warrants?
Location data on your smartphone is giving law enforcement new surveillancetools
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I Just Got a COVID-19 Test. Who Now Knows I Got It?
Labs and other companies make millions selling bundles of medical data—and it’s not as anonymized as you might think
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