Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Citizen Browser
The Markup’s Citizen Browser project found four companies targeting ads for financial products to specific age groups—a violation of Facebook policy and, potentially, civil rights laws
Privacy
Researchers say hundreds of preinstalled apps can access a log found on Android devices where sensitive contact tracing information is stored
Google the Giant
They said Google’s decision to block advertisers from seeing “Black Lives Matter” and other social justice YouTube videos was the last straw
Citizen Browser
Exxon, Comcast, and other companies target people of different political leanings with different ads
Google the Giant
“Black power” and “Black Lives Matter” can't be used to find videos for ads, but “White power” and “White lives matter” were just fine
Google the Giant
Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked
Machine Learning
Our investigation found major universities were using race as a predictor of student success and, in the process, steering Black kids away from the sciences
Locked Out
They raise concerns over racial disparities, effects of pandemic
Working for an Algorithm
The phishing scam targets gig workers, accessing their login credentials and stealing their pay
Google the Giant
Dozens of advertisers instructed the company to not show their ads to people of “unknown” gender, meaning people who had not identified themselves as male or female
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