Since 2016, California enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president's new order against such laws worries ...

We updated Blacklight to continue accurate detection of Google Analytics tracking. Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Allstate Corporation told Maryland regulators it was time to update its auto insurance rates. The insurer said its new, sophisticated risk analysis showed it was charging nearly all ...

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 ...

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...

We’ve all experienced slow and inconsistent mobile data connections—speed varies with topography and proximity to cellphone towers, making it hard to measure. We used data from a 2016 FCC study that ...

State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto ...

Marilyn Walto’s family didn’t expect her to make it through the year. A chronic disease was attacking her bile ducts and destroying her liver. Without a transplant, she would die. In an administrative ...

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...

For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...