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Director of Special ProjectsRamsey Isler is director of special projects at CalMatters and The Markup. He focuses on strategy and tactics for optimizing the delivery of the newsroom’s work, including ...

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By Monique ...

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 Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

Last week, the city council in Los Angeles, Calif. passed a motion banning “digital discrimination,” which is when internet service providers (ISPs) inequitably deploy high-speed internet connections ...

Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has ...