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 ...
About Us - The Markup
WEBThe Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. We are a new kind of media organization, staffed with an unparalleled roster of quantitative journalists who pursue meaningful, data-driven investigations. Our approach is scientific: We build datasets from scratch ...
Blacklight - The Markup
WEBSep 22, 2020 · 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
How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results – The Markup
WEBJul 28, 2020 · That percentage drops when considering the entire first page, where Google’s share was 41 percent. By comparison, Google apportioned 44.8 percent of the first results page to non-Google websites, 13.3 percent to AMP pages, and one percent to ads. In addition, we found that non-Google results were pushed down to the middle and …
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 …
Aaron Sankin - The Markup
WEBJul 18, 2024 · Aaron Sankin was an investigative reporter at The Markup until August 2024. Aaron Sankin reports on the intersection of technology and inequality. While at The Markup, he focused on issues ranging from the digital divide and social media platform governance to law enforcement technology and car insurance regulation.
Leon Yin - The Markup
WEBMar 3, 2023 · Leon Yin translates story ideas into testable hypotheses—the cornerstone of our journalism. He builds bespoke datasets and uses interdisciplinary methods to report on technology. Leon left The Markup in July 2023. His reporting of Google search’s self-referential results was cited in the opening remarks of a congressional hearing on tech ...
Amazon’s Advantage - The Markup
WEBNov 29, 2021 · The Markup Wins Loeb Award for Amazon’s Advantage. Our series revealed that Amazon placed its own in-house and exclusive products ahead of third-party items with more reviews and higher ratings. October 6, 2022 08:00 ET. Amazon’s Advantage.
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 …
Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As …
WEBOct 19, 2022 · “In my neighborhood, it’s terrible,” Neville said. But that’s not the case in other parts of New Orleans. AT&T offers residents of the mostly White, upper-income neighborhood of Lakeview internet speeds almost 400 times faster than Neville’s—for the same price: $55 a month.
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