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Show Your WorkDigital Book Banning How We Investigated Web Censorship in Schools We requested records from 26 districts in 11 states. Ten turned us down on cybersecurity grounds.April 13, 2024 06:00 ET

News Malfunctioning NYC AI Chatbot Still Active Despite Widespread Evidence It’s Encouraging Illegal Behavior Mayor Eric Adams said the city is working to fix the problems, and the site now advises visitors to “not use its responses as legal or professional advice”April 2, 2024 17:00 ET

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the borderMarch 22, 2024 11:00 ET

Automated Censorship What To Do If You Think You’ve Been Shadowbanned on Instagram How to appeal, check violations, and moreFebruary 25, 2024 08:00 ET

Privacy Federal Trade Commission Sanctions Location Data Broker X-Mode The company is prohibited from selling sensitive location data and is ordered to put consumer privacy protections in placeJanuary 11, 2024 17:41 ET

Still Loading Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy con...

Prediction: Bias Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoodsDecember 2, 2021 08:00 ET

Gentle January It’s used to verify your identity in sensitive situations, and retailers don’t need to know By Sisi Wei January 29, 2024 08:00 ET Gabriel Hongsdusit The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. Getting presents o...

Gentle January Use Virtual Machines to Contain Dodgy Stuff They’re like secure containers for dangerous files and softwareJanuary 25, 2024 15:14 ET

Gentle January Children start making digital footprints long before they can walk—but parents can help slow the process down By Joel Eastwood January 22, 2024 08:00 ET Gabriel Hongsdusit These days, children begin making digital footprints before they can walk—voracious tech companies even snap up data before childr...