Blacklight – The Markup
Sep 22, 2020 · Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? 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. Hey researchers!
The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching
Mar 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 imagery, identity verification, border trade tracking, biometrics ...
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We ...
Sep 2, 2021 · In May, a group of Google users filed a federal class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the company is violating its claims to not sell personal information by operating its real-time bidding service.. The lawsuit argues that even though Google wasn’t directly handing over your personal data in …
Should Doxing Be Illegal? – The Markup
Aug 17, 2021 · Lauren Krapf, the technology policy and advocacy counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, argues there are ways to craft anti-doxing laws that don’t harm whistleblowers. Under the proposed Nebraska law, doxing is only illegal if the perpetrator intends to cause harm by releasing information, or accidentally causes harm through recklessness.
How We Investigated Shadowbanning on Instagram – The Markup
Feb 25, 2024 · Since the Israel–Hamas war began, hundreds of users have accused Instagram of censoring their posts supporting Palestine. Many users specifically said that what they were sharing on Instagram was being shadowbanned —that is, hidden for everyone except the original user who posted. To investigate, The Markup reviewed hundreds of screenshots ...
The Shadows of Removed Posts Are Hiding in Plain Sight on Reddit
Dec 16, 2021 · Caption: Moderator-removed reposts, like this one from r/goldenretrievers, are still visible on the site in moderators' comment histories. For example, the subreddit-specific rules of r/TikTokThots, a subreddit dedicated to sexualized TikTok videos, explicitly instruct users not to post videos of people presumed to be under 18, in keeping with the …
There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's ...
Sep 30, 2021 · An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many players: collectors, aggregators, marketplaces, and location intelligence firms, all of which boast about the scale and precision of the data that they’ve amassed. Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real ...
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring …
Aug 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 at the same time, it also just becomes a fabric ...
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can …
Mar 11, 2024 · Even back then, those videos—96 percent of which had nonconsensual pornography of women—had garnered over 100 million views. Goldberg said policymakers and the public alike seem to be more motivated to ban AI-generated nude images specifically because virtually anyone can be a victim. There’s more empathy.
I Tried to Use the Ad Tech Industry's Tool to Opt Out of ...
Mar 25, 2021 · The DAA’s opt-out portal has been criticized practically since it launched in 2010. A 2011 Carnegie Mellon University study tracked dozens of users as they attempted to navigate the process, identifying a host of issues: “Initial configuration took a long time. Difficult to navigate to actual opt-out page.