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Blacklight – The Markup
Sep 22, 2020 · 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. Blacklight normally takes between 30 seconds and one minute to finish all tests. Is this website sending data about users to advertising companies ...
How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural …
Aug 30, 2024 · Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency alerts and warnings.. Early warning systems save lives during disasters.To ensure you can receive these warnings via your phone, text, or email, we recommend ...
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.
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 ...
Why Privacy Matters – The Markup
Jul 9, 2022 · Hello, friends, In the wake of the Supreme Court’s jaw-dropping ruling overturning constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, there’s been a lot of discussion about how to keep data about pregnant people private.. Google announced, for instance, that it would remove sensitive locations, such as abortion clinics, from the location data it …
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.
What Does the “Connection Not Private” Warning Really Mean?
Mar 8, 2022 · Possibly. The Connection Not Private window could be triggered by a poorly configured certificate, one that’s only recently expired, or one that’s missing entirely. Visiting websites that don’t have proper encryption can put you at risk for a number of cyberthreats. Your information could be intercepted as it travels across the internet ...
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 Location Data
Sep 30, 2021 · Copy Link Republish. Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. 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 ...