Machine Learning
This Private Equity Firm Is Amassing Companies That Collect Data on America’s Children
Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ data
Investigations
News
Public Agencies Are Buying Up AI-Driven Hiring Tools and “Bossware”
The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software
Privacy
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
Prediction: Bias
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods
Citizen Browser
Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform
Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns
Blacklight
Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers
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
Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products
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
Privacy
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
Citizen Browser
Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election
Ahead of a national vote this month, Citizen Browser data shows that posts promoting the AfD party appeared more than three times as often as rivals'
Citizen Browser
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform
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