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Many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel analytics tool despite promises of anonymity to their users.

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel.

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel.

Now that Elon Musk has bought the social media platform, some users fear a unique form of Black witnessing will be lost

Popular tax filing software, such as TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block, reportedly violated financial privacy by sending sensitive personal information to ...

According to an investigation by The Markup, tax filing websites such as TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block have been found to be secretly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online via its widespread code known as a pixel that helps developers track user activity on their sites.

Sending such information violates Meta’s policies and a spokesperson said its system is designed to filter out potentially sensitive data.

As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem.   In this talk, the shortcomings of previous corporate data sharing initiatives and identify requirements that must be met by future systems will be outlined.  In addition, Mozilla Rally, a da...

Approximately 30% of US hospital websites contained a tool that shared patient medication, appointments, and other details.

Experts say some hospitals’ use of an ad tracking tool may violate a federal law protecting health information.