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Colin Lecher

@colinlecher
6 posts
2022-05-02
Update: after telling us they had “not sent any personally identifiable information” on student aid applicants to Facebook, the Education Department says, whoops, actually we did https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-02 View on X
The Markup

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/...

2021-01-20
Facebook said it had stopped recommending political groups to users. But we found they recommended them to up to 20 percent of Trump voters: https://themarkup.org/...
2021-01-20 View on X
The Markup

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

2020-12-09
Think this is one of the most outrageous examples of facial recognition use I've ever seen and it was... on Huawei's public website https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-09 View on X
Washington Post

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

2020-01-20
In partnership with @teamtrace, our data-driven look at the website where buying a gun is as easy as responding to a Craigslist ad https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-01-20 View on X
The Verge

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...

2020-01-19
In partnership with @teamtrace, our data-driven look at the website where buying a gun is as easy as responding to a Craigslist ad https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-01-19 View on X
The Verge

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...

2019-12-05
Here's a story about friendship, betrayal, and how the US has left its toxic electronics for other countries to deal with https://www.theverge.com/...
2019-12-05 View on X
The Verge

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...