Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House ...

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and ...

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge ...

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Director of Sociotechnical ResearchAlex Rosenbat is the Director of Sociotechnical Research at CalMatters and The Markup, where she studies dark patterns, privacy and product design in U.S. healthcare ...

The exchange websites ask users to answer a series of questions, including about their health histories, to find them the most relevant information on plans. But in some cases, when visitors responded ...

Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) will not block these trackers. VPN services are handy for obscuring your location, which is a key detail that data brokers use to identify individuals.

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are ...

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Split Screen cannot reverse-engineer Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, and none of our observations should be treated as causal claims that Facebook has targeted a specific piece of content at a ...