Executives Tried To Secretly Create a New Federal Transplant Policy Post date July 30, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In health-and-human-services, liver-transplant-policy, the-markup, unos-transplant, us-healthcare-system, us-transplant-scheme, us-transplant-system, what-is-the-unos
Roleplaying With ChatGPT: A Deeper Look Post date July 27, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai-research, ai-roleplaying, ai-study, chatgpt, hackernoon-top-story, llms, roleplaying-with-chatgpt, the-markup
Accept the Software Update: Why It Can Ward Off Cybercriminals Post date July 26, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In cyber-safety, cyber-threats, cybercriminals, online-safety, software-updates, tech-tips, the-markup, Updates
How to Block Tracking and Ads Post date July 19, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ad-blocking, brave-browser, browser, online-privacy, privacy, privacy-browsers, privacy-tips, the-markup
Here’s Why You Should Put a Privacy Protector on Your Screen Post date July 18, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In cellphone-privacy, cellphone-screen-privacy, privacy, privacy-protector, privacy-tools, shoulder-surfing, the-markup, visual-hacking
What Do Students Think of Wisconsin’s Dropout Algorithm? Post date July 13, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In algorithms, dropout-algorithm, dropout-early-warning-system, student-interviews, the-markup, wisconsin-dews, wisconsin-dropout-algorithm, wisconsin-public-schools
In This LA Neighborhood, Residents Are Turning to Doorbell Cameras Instead of Calling the Cops Post date July 13, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In doorbell-camera, hackernoon-top-story, neighborhood-watch, police, police-in-america, security-cameras, simplisafe, the-markup
How to Anonymize Your Phone Post date July 6, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In anonymity, encryption, off-the-grid, online-privacy, phone-anonymity, phone-privacy, privacy, the-markup
How to Stop Your TV From Watching You Post date July 5, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In hackernoon-top-story, privacy, roku-privacy, samsung-tv, smart-tv, smart-tv-privacy, the-markup, what-is-acr
These Algorithms Were Meant to Improve the Human Condition: They Failed Post date June 29, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In algorithm-failures, algorithms, firefighting-algorithm, government-algorithm, hackernoon-top-story, rand, the-markup, the-waterfall-effect
Be Aware of News Mirages Post date June 28, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In disinformation and fake news, fake-news, journalism, News, news-deserts, news-mirages, reliable-news, the-markup
The Black Rural South Has Limited Access to the Internet: What It’s Like Post date June 27, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In black-rural-south, home-internet, internet, internet-access, internet-journalism, lack-of-internet, the-markup, us-south
An Interview With Mina El Helbawi: Conflict and Connection Post date June 21, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In esim, esims-in-palestine, gaza, interview, israel-attack-on-palestine, mirna-el-helbawi, palestine, the-markup
This College Student Wanted Privacy – His College Couldn’t Give Him Any Post date June 21, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In college-data-collection, college-privacy, data-collection, hackernoon-top-story, online-privacy, personal-data, privacy, the-markup
This Vietnamese Grandmother Is Using YouTube to Fight Misinformation Post date June 15, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In bui-nhu-mai, fake-news, fight-fake-news, hackernoon-top-story, misinformation, the-markup, YouTube, youtubers
Facebook Is Watching and Tracking Kids As They Prep for College Post date June 13, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In college-prep, facebook, meta, meta-pixel, privacy, the-markup, third-party-tracking, tracking-tools
Fighting for Algorithmic Justice: The Struggle to Unmask AI Post date June 8, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai, algorithm, algorithmic-justice, hackernoon-top-story, joy-buolamwini, joy-buolamwini-interview, the-markup, unmasking-ai
eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families: Here’s How Post date June 7, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In esims-in-palestine, gaza, israel, isreal-palestine-war, isreal-vs-palestine, palestine, palestine-blackouts, the-markup
Introducing Nightshade: A Tool Helping Artists to Fight Against AIÂ Post date June 6, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai, ai-image-generators, artists-vs-ai, fighting-against-ai, nightshade-tool, shawn-shan-interview, the-markup, what-is-nightshade
Investigating Ring’s Crime Alert System for Police Departments: How We Did It Post date May 10, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data-privacy, data-sourcing, doorbell-camera, lapd, neighbors-app, ring-cameras, the-markup, us-police
The Best Way to Protect Your Packages and Your Ethics Post date May 10, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In camera-system, data-privacy, data-protection, doorbell-camera, neighbors-app, privacy, ring-cameras, the-markup
Assessing the Accuracy of Predictive Policing Software: Our Method Post date May 4, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In crime-analysis, geolitica, police, police-software, police-tech, predictive-policing, the-markup, us-police
It Turns Out That Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible At Predicting Crimes Post date May 3, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In crime-prediction-software, hackernoon-top-story, police-in-america, police-software, police-tech, predicting-software, predictivie-policing, the-markup
Nurses Are Being Hired Like Ubers Post date May 2, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In clipboard-app, clipboard-health, gig-service, healthcare, nurse-gig, nurse-gig-service, nurses, the-markup
FTC Send Warning to 5 Tax Prep Companies for Their Invasive Online Tracking Post date April 24, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In bureau-of-consumer-protection, data-privacy, ftc, privacy, tax-companies, tax-data, the-markup, tracking-pixels
A Look at How We Illustrate and Visualize Tech and AI: Plain Text Zine Post date April 19, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In accessibility, how-to-illustrate, how-to-illustrate-ai, illustration, journalism-accessibility, journalism-illustration, the-markup, web-accessibility
The Markup Wants to Investigate Companies Like Axon That Expand Their Reach With Public Dollars Post date April 19, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In axon, axon-drones, axon-taser-equipped-drones, corporate-journalism, journalism, military-drones, tech-companies, the-markup
The Markup and the Curious Case of the Tricky Timeout Bug Post date April 13, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In bug-fixing, bug-hunting, how-to-fix-timeout-bug, journalism-tools, the-markup, the-markup-blacklight, timeout-bug, timeout-error
The Markup Series, Still Loading, Wins the ONA’s Excellence in Technology Reporting Award Post date April 11, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In journalism, journalism-awards, ona-journalism-awards, online-news-association, still-loading-series, tech-journalism, the-markup, the-markup-internet-disparity
We Want to Know Your Experience With Multi-Level Marketing Companies and Tech Post date April 10, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In investigative-journalism, journalism, mlm, mlm-journalism, multi-level-marketing, multi-marketing-tech, pyramid-scheme, the-markup
A Guide on How to Legally Web Scrape EU Data Post date April 5, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data-journalism, eu-data, eu-data-protection, eu-data-web-scraping, gdpr, hackernoon-top-story, the-markup, web-scraping
Pyramid Schemes, MLM Schemes, and the Tech That Runs Both Post date April 4, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In mlm-schemes, mlm-software, multi-level-marketing, ponzi-schemes, pyramid-scheme-software, pyramid-scheme-tech, pyramid-schemes, the-markup
International Students Were Wrongly Accused of Cheating Thanks to AI Detection Tools Post date April 3, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai-accusations, ai-detection-tools, ai-detector, ai-in-school, ai-writing, hackernoon-top-story, the-markup, turnitin
How to Make Custom Graphics Like an Award Winning Journalism Publication Post date March 30, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In custom-graphics, Graphic Design, graphic-design-tutorial, hackernoon-top-story, how-to-create-graphic-design, online-graphic-design, the-markup, the-markup-graphic-design
People Actually Read Privacy Policies – Then This Happened Next Post date March 30, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In privacy, privacy-policy, terms-of-service, the-markup, user-agreements, zoom-privacy-flaws, zoom-privacy-policy, zoom-scandal
How to Test for Neighborhood-Level Internet Disparities Post date March 28, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data-journalism, hackernoon-top-story, internet-data, internet-disparities, internet-journalism, isp, socioeconomic-data, testing-for-disparities
Navigating Privacy Policies: A Guide to Cut Through the Fluff Post date March 27, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In online-privacy, personal-privacy-online, privacy, privacy-policy, privacy-policy-guide, private-information, the-markup, website-policy
Want to Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy? Here’s How Post date March 26, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ad-targeting, coppa-disclosures, hackernoon-top-story, Information, personal-information, privacy-disclosures, privacy-policy, the-markup
You Can Help Us Investigate Surveillance Marketing Using Facebook Data: Here’s How Post date March 23, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data, data-collection, data-investigation, facebook-data, meta-pixel, pixel-hunt, surveillance-marketing, the-markup
Want to Buy Ed-Tech That Isn’t Evil? Here’s How Post date March 22, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ed-tech, educational-tech-guide, educational-technology, hack, how-to-choose-best-ed-tech, tech-guide, the-markup, what-ed-tech-to-choose
Looking for a Better Deal on Broadband? What You Should Be Doing to Find It Post date March 22, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In best-isps, broadband, broadband-map, internet, internet-service-providers, isp-map, local-isps, the-markup
Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data, According to Congressional Report Post date March 19, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data, data-leak, data-privacy, handr-block-user-data, meta, tax-prep, taxslayer-user-data, the-markup
Earth’s Climate Is Being Hurt By AI in Non-Obvious Ways Post date March 16, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai, ai-affect-on-climate, ai-emission, ai-models, climate-change, environmental-impact, hackernoon-top-story, the-markup
Like Kermit Once Said: “It’s Not Easy Being Green” – AI Environmental Equity Post date March 15, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai, ai-environmental-equity, ai-impact-on-climate, climate-change, cloud-service-providers, environmental-impact, green-tech, the-markup
The Markup: How We Won the 2023 Media Literate Media Award Post date March 14, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In actionable-journalism, journalism, journalism-award, media-literacy, media-literate-award, namle, namle-award-winners, the-markup
Mental Health Crisis Calls: The Government’s Controversial Idea to Track Them Post date March 12, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In crisis-center, mental health, mental-health-crisis, mental-health-emergency, the-markup, us-government, us-government-mental-health, us-mental-health
Here’s Why The Markup Won the Digiday Media Award Post date March 1, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In award-for-journalism, digiday-media-award, investigative-journalism, journalism, journalism-awards, medical-journalism, meta-pixel, the-markup
AI Diagnosed Her With Breast Cancer – So She Decied to See How Accurate It Was Post date February 3, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ai, ai-cancer-prediction, ai-in-cancer-detection, ai-in-healthcare, meredit-broussard-interview, meredith-broussard, technochauvinism, the-markup
Suicide Hotlines Promised Anonymity – So Why Was Sensitive Data Sent to Facebook? Post date January 19, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In anonymity, data-privacy, facebook, facebook-mental-health-data, hackernoon-top-story, local-crisis-center-data, meta-suicide-data-collection, the-markup
How One Vietnamese Community Depends on YouTube for News Post date January 4, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In aapi-communities, diy-news, hackernoon-top-story, information-void, News, the-markup, YouTube, youtube-news
Life360 Is Being Sued for Selling Location Data: What You Need to Know Post date January 3, 2025 Post author By The Markup Post categories In class-action-lawsuit, family-tracking-app, life360, life360-federal-lawsuit, life360-lawsuit, location-data, online-privacy, the-markup
What is Causing the Worrisome Increase in Ransomware Post date November 1, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In cybercrime, cybersecurity, good-company, healthcare, online-security, ransomware, ransomware-on-the-rise, the-markup
We Ought to Get Better at Recognizing Dark Patterns Post date October 25, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In cro, dark-patterns, dark-patterns-mislead-consumer, forms, hackernoon-top-story, the-markup, ux, ux design
“Racism and vigilantism are pervasive on safety platforms” Post date October 11, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In algorithms, application, mobile, nextdoor, snoop-dog, society, technology, trends-in-society
Uber and Lyft Drivers are Increasingly Victims of Carjacking Post date October 11, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In algorithms, carjacking, hackernoon-top-story, irresponsible-company, lyft, security, trends-in-society, uber
Big Tech Vs. Big Government: The Choice is Pretty Bleak Post date October 8, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In big-tech, big-tech-and-startups, government, hackernoon-top-story, law, power-wars-in-america, technology, the-markup
The Concerning Results of Investigation Into Google’s YouTube Ad Placement Blocklist Post date October 7, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In Google, google-ads-api, google-social-justice, social-justice, the-markup, YouTube, youtube-ad-placement-blocklist, youtube-ads
Who are the Data Brokers Spending Big Bucks to Lobby Congress Post date October 2, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In data-broker-industry-lobbying, data-brokers, data-privacy, good-company, lobbying, oracle, privacy, themarkup
What Happens When you Try to Opt Out of Personalized Ads Post date September 30, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In cookies, marketing, opt-out-of-cookies, opt-out-of-personalized-ads, personalized-ads, privacy, targeted-advertisement, the-markup
Testing the Perfornace and Privacy Settings of COVID-19 Vaccine Websites Post date September 25, 2021 Post author By The Markup Post categories In ad-trackers, cookies, covid-19, covid-vaccine, data-privacy, performance, privacy, the-markup
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