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The Markup CEO Nabiha Syed's announcement:...

The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED

The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers’ tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income

Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border

States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and easy-to-use apps

The idea behind predictive policing is that by feeding historical crime data into a computer algorithm, it’s possible to determine where crime is most likely to occur, or who is most likely to offend. Law enforcement officials can then make proactive interventions, like conducting patrols in predicted crime locations, ideally...

Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of...

Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’...

We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...

These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.

Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...

Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk

Internet-connected cars allow abusers to track domestic violence survivors after they leave