2022-05-04
“SafeGraph classifies ‘Planned Parenthood’ as a ‘brand’ that can be tracked, and the data Motherboard purchased includes more than 600 Planned Parenthood locations in the United States.” https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
SafeGraph says it will stop selling the location data of visitors to Planned Parenthood and other family planning centers “to curtail any potential misuse”
including the authorities — conveniently pre-sifted for visits to reproductive health clinics. A years-in-the-making total regulatory failure. https://twitter.com/... https://twitt...
2020-07-28
This project also has the most colorful and interesting methodology/whitepaper I've ever seen https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
The Markup
Study of 15K+ recent popular queries finds Google devoted 41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and “direct answers”
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
2020-05-29
For this story, we reviewed hundreds of federal lawsuits on PACER to learn about people losing out on housing because of mistakes in their reports - those are on GitHub here 4/ https://github.com/...
The Markup
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports
and the people they hurt. Superb reporting. https://themarkup.org/... Matthew Goldstein / @mattgoldstein26 : Denied an apartment because of a mistake in a background check report? ...
Landlords used to just call references and run credit checks to decide who to rent to. Now, many use automated tenant screening services, which pull in all kinds of info that can be outdated, incomplete, or flat wrong. 1/ https://themarkup.org/...
The Markup
Investigation finds many tenant screening services, relying on algorithms to find infractions and widely used by landlords, often produce flawed reports
and the people they hurt. Superb reporting. https://themarkup.org/... Matthew Goldstein / @mattgoldstein26 : Denied an apartment because of a mistake in a background check report? ...