Study finds the US FAFSA application page shared users' info, including names, zip codes, and email addresses, with Meta via the company's tracking pixel
apparently including while doing something as private as applying for government financial aid. Read the full report from @suryamattu and @colinlecher today. https://themarkup.org/...
Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
The Verge : Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_franks , @geigernews , @giffordscourage , @colinlecher , and @reckless Tweets: @momsdemand : Criminals and others are avoiding ba...
Profile of Armslist, the “Craigslist of guns” that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer
Inside Armslist, the online ‘gun show that never ends’ — Thomas Caldwell was a veteran in his 60s with a soft physique, oval glasses … Tweets: @momsdemand , @sean_kev , @ma_frank...
How the Basel Action Network, which embeds trackers in discarded devices to trace where they end up in the world, uncovered bad practices of an e-waste recycler
How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal — Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.” Tweets: @russellbrandom and @colinlecher Tweets: Russell Brando...