After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls.| themarkup.org
California and other states have pushed to expand prison education, but they continue to limit inmates’ access to the internet and other technology| themarkup.org
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.| themarkup.org
A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.| themarkup.org
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching| themarkup.org
Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success.| The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.| themarkup.org
Purchasing records show some colleges are paying three times more than others.| The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.| The Markup
In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House| The Markup
Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.| The Markup
The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes.| themarkup.org
Offending posts—including sexually explicit images—linger in comment histories long after their removal from subreddits| themarkup.org
Bill reintroduction follows investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media that found insurers target Black neighborhoods for high rates| The Markup
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.| The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn| The Markup
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies| The Markup
The lawmakers cite a Markup and CalMatters investigation that first revealed Covered California’s data practices in April.| themarkup.org
The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.| themarkup.org
The global data journalism contest recognized The Markup’s investigation into shadowbanning on Instagram.| The Markup
House Republicans advanced a 10-year moratorium on state AI rules. California would be especially hard hit| The Markup
How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look| themarkup.org
The suit accuses the companies of receiving personal information through California’s state health insurance exchange.| themarkup.org
The number of state and local ICE partnerships has spiked this year—especially in Florida| themarkup.org
At a landmark gathering in California, workers discussed defenses against artificial intelligence and surveillance technology| themarkup.org
The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark| themarkup.org
The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success| themarkup.org
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page| themarkup.org
Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority| themarkup.org
