California’s 36th Congressional District includes El Segundo, a high-tech defense hub outside Los Angeles. In the district’s ...

Nearly three years ago we launched Blacklight, an online tool that allows users to enter any website and find out what tracking technologies are present and who gets the visitor data they collect.

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...

Read about our latest updates to Blacklight. Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into ...

Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...

Meet Bùi Như Mai, a 67-year-old Vietnamese grandmother who is also a YouTube influencer. “I didn’t think I was going to be a YouTube newscaster at the age of 67. But these days you will often see me ...

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...

We all use the internet to complete increasingly sensitive tasks: book doctor’s appointments, file taxes, apply for financial aid. When we do, our data can be tracked from the moment we open our ...

On Monday, the Biden administration released details of an expansive executive order that represents America’s first concerted attempt to control the use and application of artificial intelligence.

Have you noticed that Google search results often turn up a lot of Google content at the top? We did. We built a browser extension, Simple Search, to show you just the “traditional” search results.

This article is a collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion ...

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