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Many abortion rights advocates say data brokers selling their personal information online put them at risk.
Next I open my new textbook in the Cornell Store’s VitalSource page, a sort of digital archive that stores textbook purchases. Navigating to the chapter marked in my syllabus, eager and ready to learn, I’m interrupted by yet another pop-op: a cookies policy. Cookies are, as Emily Stewart at Vox puts it, “small files that websites send to your device that the sites then use to monitor you and remember certain information about you.” You’re probably familiar with the concept. A cookies permission ...
Researchers have found some daycare apps share information such as the number of diaper changes with third-parties without disclosing it.
CPRA is forcing a reckoning for how companies handle employee data. Here's how to get out ahead of it.
The Federal Trade Commission should investigate companies that sell lists of prospective students to colleges and universities, a new report from the Institute for College Access & Success argues. The report, released Tuesday, is the third installment of a series focused on the student list industry. The first two reports explained how the industry works and analyzed the
The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity,” one cybersecurity expert said.
Despite policies that aim to provide both transparency and access, most students and parents are unaware of what data is being stored and who has access to it.
After a Markup investigation in June, 28 hospitals removed the Meta Pixel or blocked it from sending patient information to Facebook
While growing up along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, Kenyatta Thomas relied on the internet and other teenagers to learn about sex. Thomas and their peers watched videos during high school gym class that stressed the importance of abstinence — and the horrors that can come from sex before marriage. But for Thomas, who is […]
Dries Depoorter creates artworks about surveillance, privacy, social media and machine learning. Dries is based in Ghent, Belgium
Fog Reveal is "almost invisible" when attempting to search for it online.
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.
Police departments across the U.S. have been using Fog Reveal for ‘mass surveillance on a budget,’ investigations by the EFF and Associated Press revealed. Now, we're publishing the manual.
Ohio judge says room scans could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.