
Privacy
Lawsuit Highlights How Little Control Brokers Have Over Location Data
The case suggests this loosely regulated industry can’t deliver on its promises of privacy
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Privacy
The case suggests this loosely regulated industry can’t deliver on its promises of privacy
The BreakdownPrivacy
How to decide when it's safe to proceed, and what's at risk if you do
The BreakdownPrivacy
Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect
Privacy
Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps
The BreakdownPrivacy
Data-driven personalized ads are the lifeblood of the internet. To a growing number of lawmakers, they’re also nefarious
Privacy
The announcement comes after The Markup identified the family tracking app as one of the largest sources of raw data for the location data industry
Privacy
The Markup identified 107 apps that sold data to X‑Mode in 2018 and 2019
Privacy
For years researchers have called out the Wiretap Report for being outdated and incomplete
Privacy
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
Privacy
California requires law enforcement to report the controversial warrants to a state database—but The Markup found massive discrepancies in how they’re reported
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