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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jun 17
NEW: State healthcare sites around the country have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...
We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 6h
This is just the latest reporting on software that censors and blocks legitimate educational material. The Markup’s investigation on schools censoring online resources reveals that the issue is nationwide, and negatively affects the way students do their work. themarkup.org/series/digit...

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Data-driven investigations of tech and how it influences society
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 6h
Former and current high school students in Kansas are speaking out about Gaggle, an AI-powered surveillance tool that their school used to scan everything from emails to reporting notes to college entrance essays, reports the @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails
The tool, called Gaggle, uses artificial intelligence to search student documents for signs of unsafe behavior, such as substance abuse or threats of violence.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 12d
The Markup has been reporting on Pres. Biden’s rural-focused Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program since its inception. We found that urban, low-income regions of the U.S. also have extremely unreliable internet access: themarkup.org/series/still...

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The Markup @themarkup.org · 12d
The Trump administration’s changes are also shifting funds from reliable, fast underground fiber optic cable to satellite internet companies that have more uneven service, including Elon Musk’s Starlink.

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The Markup @themarkup.org · 12d
This week, @stateline.org reported on how a Biden-era project to expand high-speed broadband to rural regions is being significantly changed by the Trump administration, disqualifying hundreds of thousands of locations from access: stateline.org/2025/09/22/w...

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Fewer households, businesses will get high-speed internet under revamped federal plan • Stateline
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses without internet access will not receive it.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Sep 4
Black Americans made up more than a quarter of the national transplant list, yet they are far less likely to receive the organs they need to survive. They also account for just 13% of donors. Why?

Word in Black has a short survey on barriers to donation: https://bit.ly/41C3RJg
We Want to Hear From You on Organ Donation
Take our short survey to help identify barriers, inform policy, and ensure our community has a fair chance at life-saving transplants.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 22
In 2022, we revealed that Uber has a pattern of delaying cooperation with law enforcement when officers reach out for data on driver assaults, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks. themarkup.org/working-for-...
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When Drivers Are Attacked, Uber Leaves Police Waiting for Help – The Markup
An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 22
Earlier this month, the @nytimes.com revealed that Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the U.S. almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
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Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 15
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 13
Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them.
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 6
Have you ever posted support for Palestine on Instagram, and then saw engagement on your subsequent posts drop? Last year, we published an investigation that found the platform demoted images of the war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal.
Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram – The Markup
An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 5
California lawmakers want to ban companies from using data about consumers’ devices like battery life, model and geolocation to set fluctuating prices. Proponents say such “surveillance pricing” is discriminatory. bit.ly/45AErhq

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CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices – The Markup
A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 5
California State Sen. Aisha Wahab's SB 259 would prevent retailers from using artificial intelligence to jack up prices using the information stored on customers’ phones. That could include the phone’s battery life, whether it’s an older model and more: bit.ly/45AErhq

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CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices – The Markup
A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Aug 1
As colleges further embed ChatGPT and other chatbots into campus life, experts warn lost relationships may become a devastating unintended consequence. themarkup.org/artificial-i...
AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison – The Markup
Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 31
If you’re a patient who’s struggled to access your medical records, or a physician who has to redo tests and scans for patients because you can’t get records in time, we want to hear from you. You can reach us via the contact info listed in the story.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 31
Remember that time when you had to sign a bunch of consent forms on a hospital iPad, with no idea what you are agreeing with? Digitizing paperwork could sometimes make it harder to opt out of data sharing or simply accessing your own records. themarkup.org/hello-world/...
During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office – The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 29
The technical blueprint obtained by ProPublica shows that engineers at the agency are preparing to give DHS what it wants: a system that enables massive automated data sharing.

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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 29
Is your home police department partnering with ICE? Find out: themarkup.org/tools/2025/0...
Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE – The Markup
Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 23
Help us investigate how patients opt out of voluntary uses of their data, or get access to their own data. You can reach us via the contact info listed in the story.

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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 23
During her toddler’s surgery, a researcher wanted copies of the consent forms she just signed, but the staff was preventing her from getting it. What followed was a maze of refusals, misinformation, and dead ends that exposed just how broken the process really is themarkup.org/hello-world/...

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During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office – The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 22
While most agree there should be consequences for youth offenders, there’s less consensus about what those consequences should be — and a push for reeducation over extreme charges. themarkup.org/artificial-i...
Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up – The Markup
Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 18
Cal Fire said it’s working on the fixes, but experts said the process of kicking the tires on a chatbot should happen long before procurement begins.
California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot.  It can’t answer one crucial question – The Markup
The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on fixes.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 17
This is not just a trend happening in universities. Some high schools are using chatbots to make up to the counselor shortage. Experts worry that this may unintentionally harm students in the long run. themarkup.org/machine-lear...
AI Chatbots Can Cushion the High School Counselor Shortage — But Are They Bad for Students? – The Markup
The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 17
Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors or even their classmates anymore — Instead, they are asking AI for help. What could go wrong? themarkup.org/artificial-i...
AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison – The Markup
Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · Jul 16
While some states have developed penal codes that factor a perpetrator’s age into their punishment, most do not. themarkup.org/artificial-i...
Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up – The Markup
Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.
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