The popular family safety app Life360 is selling precise location data on its tens of millions of users
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
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 neighborhoods
Nonprofit websites are riddled with ad trackers
Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues —and many are feeding data about site visitors to corporations
Amazon puts its own “brands” first above better-rated products
The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon
How can you safely store your vaccine status on your phone?
Vaccine cards don’t actually contain very much sensitive information, but you can protect it nonetheless
There’s a multibillion-dollar market for your phone’s location data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
What does Facebook mean when it says it supports “internet regulations”?
Since companies typically try to avoid regulation, Facebook’s support for it is weird. Or is it? There’s more to the company’s proposal than meets the eye