For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...

Screenshot of buzzfolder.com, with developer tools showing text being recorded. Honorlock didn’t respond to a request for comment on the sites or to answer other questions about its privacy practices.

Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off? If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes By Sam Morris September 3, 2020 08:00 ET Updated September 3, 2020 11:47 ET Want a great ...

Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...

Hello World Section 230 Is a Load-Bearing Wall—Is It Coming Down? A conversation with James Grimmelmann and Kate Klonick By Nabiha Syed ...

Banned Bounty Labeled “Research” Chemicals, Doping Drugs Sold Openly on Amazon.com Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance ...

Over the past six years, a little-known private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, has built an educational software empire that wields unseen influence over the educational journeys of tens of ...

Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...

When Katherine Pickering Antonova became a history professor in 2008, she got access to the plagiarism detection software tools Turnitin and SafeAssign. At first blush, she thought the technology ...

Locked Out Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back Federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of renters who ...

This article is a collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion ...

Have you ever shopped for a product online only to see the item appear ad nauseam in your Facebook or Instagram feeds? This is often the result of the Meta Pixel (formerly called the Facebook Pixel), ...