Can Schools Police What Students Say on Social Media?
WEBJun 8, 2021 · In some instances, groups of dozens of students have been disciplined for what they’ve done on social media, as when 20 Oregon high school students were suspended for retweeting a tweet suggesting a staff member flirted with students. The Supreme Court’s decision will decide whether those sorts of disciplinary actions are …
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
WEBSep 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 ...
I Tried to Use the Ad Tech Industry’s Tool to Opt Out of …
WEBMar 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.
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not …
WEBSep 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 …
How We Investigated UNOS’s Liver Allocation Policy
WEBMar 21, 2023 · Introduction. In February 2020, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which is the United States’ sole national network for organizing organ transplants, made a change in its policy on how livers are allocated to patients in need of transplants. The policy change made it so that, in effect, a candidate’s proximity to a ...
Blacklight – The Markup
WEBSep 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. Options. Scan Site.
How We Uncovered Disparities in Internet Deals – The Markup
WEBOct 19, 2022 · We focused our investigation on wireline services (like DSL, fiber, cable), omitting satellite and fixed wireless internet services. (Fixed wireless internet services use an antenna or dish to receive broadcast waves from a tower and include 5G internet by mobile providers.). Internet accessibility advocates overwhelmingly view high-speed …
Facebook Scammers Are Shilling Fake Cryptocurrency Using Big …
WEBFeb 22, 2022 · These Facebook ads ran in February 2022; all feature Meta’s infinity symbol logo and/or Mark Zuckerberg’s image. The site claimed the fictional token would launch with a “BIG blastoff” on Feb. 22 and that potential investors could join a presale by making a purchase through the cryptocurrency bitcoin or Ethereum. The minimum investment ...
The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms
WEBAug 25, 2021 · All for $375,000. Prequalifying for the mortgage was a breeze. They said they had saved much more than they would need for the down payment, had very good credit—scores of 805 and 725—and earned roughly six figures each, she in marketing at a utility company and Eskias representing a pharmaceutical company.
Why Is My Internet So Slow? – The Markup
WEBApr 12, 2022 · 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 connections they offered in other parts of town. Sometimes the technology that leads to your home is too out of date to support …
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