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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 👉

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.

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?

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 li...

The bot couldn't: Describe a given wildfire’s containment accurately Provide a list for evacuation supplies Tell users about evacuation orders What else we found:

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.

Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls. With The 19th:

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.

The U.S. Senate voted not to interfere with state AI regulations, defeating a 10-year moratorium on such laws that had earlier cleared the House and alarmed California officials.

State AI regulations safe after Senate strips moratorium from ‘big, beautiful bill’ – The Markup

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House

NEW: Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let t...

Is there anything I can do to stop my information from being leaked this way? The answer is yes 👇

This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup

The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on...

State healthcare sites have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn. We scanned the websites of states that independently operate their own online health exchange, and found four states — Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts — exposed users’ sensitive health info. Our findings:

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

Schools’ web filters are supposed to block porn. Instead, they block useful info and prevent students from learning. And most students can find their way to access an unfiltered internet anyway:

Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive' Than Expected, New Data Shows – The Markup

Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from informa...

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the ...

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