Hacker News
- Online Censorship in Schools Leaves Teachers in the Lurch, Too https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/23/online-censorship-in-schools-leaves-teachers-in-the-lurch-too 0 comments
- Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood https://themarkup.org/news/2023/10/16/twitter-is-throttling-patreon-links-creators-say-it-undermines-their-livelihood 13 comments
- Private Equity Firm Amassing Data on America’s Children https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/01/11/this-private-equity-firm-is-amassing-companies-that-collect-data-on-americas-children 3 comments
- Amazon puts its own “brands” first above better-rated products https://themarkup.org/amazons-advantage/2021/10/14/amazon-puts-its-own-brands-first-above-better-rated-products 49 comments
- Are “Buy Now, Pay Later” Retail Loans a Rip-Off? https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2021/07/15/are-buy-now-pay-later-retail-loans-a-rip-off 37 comments
- How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/05/06/how-big-pharma-finds-sick-users-on-facebook 166 comments
- Google promised its contact tracing app was completely private, but it wasn’t https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its-contact-tracing-app-was-completely-private-but-it-wasnt 218 comments
- We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/09/how-we-discovered-googles-social-justice-blocklist-for-youtube-ad-placements 53 comments
- What Are My Photos Revealing About Me? https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/03/12/photos-privacy 2 comments
- Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram | An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal https://themarkup.org/automated-censorship/2024/02/25/demoted-deleted-and-denied-theres-more-than-just-shadowbanning-on-instagram 78 comments technology
- He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/11/30/he-wanted-privacy-his-college-gave-him-none 63 comments privacy
- Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links https://themarkup.org/news/2023/10/16/twitter-is-throttling-patreon-links-creators-say-it-undermines-their-livelihood 2 comments technology
- “Out Of Control”: Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive Health Information to Big Tech Companies | An investigation by The Markup and STAT found 49 out of 50 telehealth websites sharing health data via Big Tech’s tracking tools https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/12/13/out-of-control-dozens-of-telehealth-startups-sent-sensitive-health-information-to-big-tech-companies 14 comments technology
- How Political Campaigns Use Your Phone’s Location to Target You - Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/11/08/how-political-campaigns-use-your-phones-location-to-target-you 4 comments technology
- Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car? https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collecting-data-from-your-car 15 comments privacy
- This Private Equity Firm Is Amassing Companies That Collect Data on America’s Children https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/01/11/this-private-equity-firm-is-amassing-companies-that-collect-data-on-americas-children 2 comments technology
- 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 https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user 3 comments privacy
- The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user 226 comments apple
- 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 https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data?via=biztoc.com 8 comments 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" https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data 5 comments privacy
- There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data 774 comments technology
- Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data – The Markup https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/09/21/facebook-rolls-out-news-feed-change-that-blocks-watchdogs-from-gathering-data 17 comments technology
- The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms https://themarkup.org/denied/2021/08/25/the-secret-bias-hidden-in-mortgage-approval-algorithms 12 comments technology
- Manual for a popular facial recognition tool shows how much the software tracks https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/07/06/this-manual-for-a-popular-facial-recognition-tool-shows-just-how-much-the-software-tracks-people 3 comments programming
- After Repeatedly Promising Not to, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/06/24/after-repeatedly-promising-not-to-facebook-keeps-recommending-political-groups-to-its-users 289 comments technology
- After Repeatedly Promising Not to, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users – The Markup https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/06/24/after-repeatedly-promising-not-to-facebook-keeps-recommending-political-groups-to-its-users 14 comments privacy
- Markup.org: How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook. https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/05/06/how-big-pharma-finds-sick-users-on-facebook 3 comments privacy
- Google Promised Its Contact Tracing App Was Completely Private—But It Wasn’t – Researchers say hundreds of preinstalled apps can access a log found on Android devices where sensitive contact tracing information is stored https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its-contact-tracing-app-was-completely-private-but-it-wasnt 19 comments technology
- How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths – Exxon, Comcast, and other companies target people of different political leanings with different ads https://themarkup.org/news/2021/04/13/how-facebooks-ad-system-lets-companies-talk-out-of-both-sides-of-their-mouths 18 comments technology
- Blacklight: this site will scan your favourite websites and show you the specific user-tracking technologies they're using to harvest your data https://themarkup.org/blacklight 4 comments technology
- The Little-Known Data Broker Industry Is Spending Big Bucks Lobbying Congress - Data brokers’ millions of dollars in lobbying spending in 2020 rivaled that of some Big Tech firms https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/01/the-little-known-data-broker-industry-is-spending-big-bucks-lobbying-congress 2 comments technology
- Facebook Says “Technical Issues” Were the Cause of Broken Promise to Congress https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/02/12/facebook-says-technical-issues-were-the-cause-of-broken-promise-to-congress 4 comments technology
- Voter Registration Websites Are Crashing, Locking Out Would-Be Voters https://themarkup.org/election-2020/2020/10/27/voter-registration-websites-crashing-failures 11 comments technology
- The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website – The Markup https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites 3 comments privacy
- Blacklight: A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector https://themarkup.org/blacklight/ 25 comments privacy
- Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn - Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content” https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/23/google-advertising-keywords-black-girls 5 comments technology
- Companies Made Millions Building Unemployment Websites That Didn’t Work https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm 12 comments technology
- Companies Made Millions Building Unemployment Websites That Didn’t Work https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/07/16/unemployment-benefits-website-failures-deloitte-ibm 109 comments programming
- Will Google’s and Apple’s COVID tracking plan protect privacy? https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2020/04/14/will-googles-and-apples-covid-tracking-plan-protect-privacy 10 comments privacy
- Swinging the Vote? Google’s black box algorithm controls which political emails land in your main inbox. For 2020 presidential candidates, the differences are stark. https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email 9 comments technology
Linking pages
- Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is profitable. Most online outrage is faked for profit' | Craigslist | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/14/craigslist-craig-newmark-outrage-is-profitable-most-online-outrage-is-faked-for-profit 870 comments
- Is Gmail hiding Bernie’s emails to you? How inbox filtering may impact democracy | US elections 2020 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/26/gmail-hiding-bernie-sanders-emails-google-inbox-sorting-consequences-2020 63 comments
- News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/business/media/the-markup-craig-newmark.html 62 comments
- Scraping Isn't Hacking | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/scraping-isn-t-hacking-261438 62 comments
- Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients - Reveal https://revealnews.org/article/facebook-data-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-center/ 24 comments
- Sotomayor and Gorsuch Appear Ready to Strike Down CFAA | Law & Crime https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/justices-sotomayor-and-gorsuch-lead-the-supreme-court-in-skepticism-of-outdated-anti-hacking-law/ 15 comments
- Facebook Quietly Ends Racial Ad Profiling | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/facebook-quietly-ends-racial-ad-profiling-269635 10 comments
- How Online Course Platforms Track Learners in 2022 — Class Central https://www.classcentral.com/report/providers-privacy-analysis/ 4 comments
- Mozilla partners with The Markup to launch Rally study into Facebook’s tracking and data collection practices https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-themarkup-partner-rally-facebook-tracking-data-collection/ 2 comments
- Hello from The Markup | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/hello-from-the-markup-199187 2 comments
- Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/technology/craig-newmark-journalism-gifts.html 0 comments
- Can Differential Privacy Save the Census? | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/can-differential-privacy-save-the-census-602525 0 comments
- Decrypting Apple’s Plan to Scan Photos on Your Phone | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/decrypting-apple-s-plan-to-scan-photos-on-your-phone-716040 0 comments
- Privacy’s time is now | Below Radar https://belowradar.co.uk/privacy-now 0 comments
- Public-Interest Technology Resources https://public-interest-tech.com/ 0 comments
- Our First Year: Auditing Algorithms | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/our-first-year-auditing-algorithms-376252 0 comments
- How Privacy and Disinformation Are Related | Revue https://www.getrevue.co/profile/themarkup/issues/how-privacy-and-disinformation-are-related-644366 0 comments
- We need a Theia. Some prophecies come true. | by Doc Searls | Medium https://dsearls.medium.com/we-need-a-theia-84584c567f64 0 comments
- Detroit is paying big money for slow internet • Outlier Media https://outliermedia.org/detroit-is-paying-big-money-for-slow-internet/ 0 comments
- Check website privacy with Blacklight - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/25/privacy-check-blacklight/ 0 comments