Blacklight – The Markup
WEBSep 22, 2020 · Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn. Blacklight normally takes between 30 seconds and one minute to finish all tests. Is this website sending data about users to advertising companies ...
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not …
WEBSep 2, 2021 · In May, a group of Google users filed a federal class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the company is violating its claims to not sell personal information by operating its real-time bidding service.. The lawsuit argues that even though Google wasn’t directly handing over your …
Why Privacy Matters – The Markup
WEBJul 9, 2022 · Hello, friends, In the wake of the Supreme Court’s jaw-dropping ruling overturning constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, there’s been a lot of discussion about how to keep data about pregnant people private.. Google announced, for instance, that it would remove sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, from the …
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
WEBSep 30, 2021 · An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many players: collectors, aggregators, marketplaces, and location intelligence firms, all of which boast about the scale and precision of the data that they’ve amassed. Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real ...
The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching
WEBMar 22, 2024 · Since at least 2019, DHS has been gradually and increasingly integrating AI and other advanced machine learning into its operations, including border security, cybersecurity, threat detection, and disaster response, according to the department’s AI Inventory.Some specific uses include image generation and detection, geospatial …
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can …
WEBMar 11, 2024 · Even back then, those videos—96 percent of which had nonconsensual pornography of women—had garnered over 100 million views. Goldberg said policymakers and the public alike seem to be more motivated to ban AI-generated nude images specifically because virtually anyone can be a victim. There’s more empathy.
How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build …
WEBAug 10, 2021 · A scan from Blacklight, a website privacy inspector built by The Markup, on Aug. 4, 2021, turned up 41 ad trackers and 117 third-party cookies on the homepage. By contrast, The Markup’s scan of 100,000 of the most popular websites in September 2020 found an average of seven ad trackers and only three third-party cookies per site. The …
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring …
WEBAug 10, 2024 · Caption: Francisco Lara-García My conversation with Lara-García has been edited for brevity and clarity. Lara-García: One thing that is kind of a paradox about living and having lived on the border is that there are moments when you can’t not be aware of the intense amount of enforcement and surveillance and activity across the border. But …
A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to ... - The Markup
WEBFebruary 15, 2022 08:00 ET. Gabriel Hongsdusit. When Kurt Wilson, a computer science student at the University of Central Florida, heard that his university was using a controversial online proctoring tool called Honorlock, he immediately wanted to learn more. The company, whose business has boomed during the pandemic, promises to ensure …
The Shadows of Removed Posts Are Hiding in Plain Sight on Reddit
WEBDec 16, 2021 · Caption: Moderator-removed reposts, like this one from r/goldenretrievers, are still visible on the site in moderators' comment histories. For example, the subreddit-specific rules of r/TikTokThots, a subreddit dedicated to sexualized TikTok videos, explicitly instruct users not to post videos of people presumed to be under 18, in keeping with the …