
Pixel Hunt
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You
The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Pixel Hunt
The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook
Machine Learning
The software, often required by schools, enables colleges and universities to choose from an array of demographics, including race, to target prospective students.
Machine Learning
Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data
News
The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software
Privacy
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias
A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol
Prediction: Bias
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods
Citizen Browser
Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns
Blacklight
Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
Amazon’s Advantage
The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon
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