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.

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, ...

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,” ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By Monique ...