February 22, 2023
NPR
What Kroger is doing with data about customers in its loyalty program
By Jon Keegan
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with reporter Jon Keegan of The Markup about the data that Kroger grocery chain collects about customers in its loyalty program.
February 16, 2023
The Markup
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
By Jon Keegan
When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart—and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers.
November 8, 2022
The Markup
How Political Campaigns Use Your Phone’s Location to Target You
By Jon Keegan
Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements.
July 27, 2022
The Markup
Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of
July 15, 2022
The Markup
Planned Parenthood Data Found on Another Location Data Dashboard
By Jon Keegan
A free trial dashboard from INRIX listed Planned Parenthood as a “chain,” with at least 71 locations in 35 states.
July 1, 2022
The Markup
Online Abortion Pill Provider Hey Jane Used Tracking Tools That Sent Visitor Data to Meta, Google, and Others
By Jon Keegan and Dara Kerr
Personal information from reviewers was also exposed until The Markup’s inquiry.
June 13, 2022
The Markup
New York State’s “Right to Repair” Law Could Have a Ripple Effect
By Jon Keegan
The passage of the bill could result in a national policy shift.
April 1, 2022
The Markup
Following Markup Investigation, U.S. Regulators Questioned Life360’s Data Practices
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The family safety company was approached by regulators about its data sales.
March 21, 2022
The Markup
Lawsuit Highlights How Little Control Brokers Have Over Location Data
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The case suggests this loosely regulated industry can’t deliver on its promises of privacy.
February 24, 2022
The Markup
Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry?
By Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan
Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect
February 17, 2022
The Markup
Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk
By Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan
Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps
January 27, 2022
The Markup
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data The announcement comes after The Markup identified the family tracking app as one of the largest sources of raw data for the location data industry
January 27, 2022
The Markup
Gay/Bi Dating App, Muslim Prayer Apps Sold Data on People’s Location to a Controversial Data Broker
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The Markup identified 107 apps that sold data to X‑Mode in 2018 and 2019
December 6, 2021
The Markup
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
September 30, 2021
The Markup
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements.
August 6, 2021
The Markup
Anti-Semitic Merchandise Persists on Pinterest, Despite Restrictions
By Jon Keegan
The Markup found dozens of pins containing hateful content, which raises fresh questions about the platform’s content moderation strategy.
July 9, 2021
The Markup
Facebook Got Rid of Racial Ad Categories. Or Did It?
By Jon Keegan
Our Citizen Browser project found an array of proxies through which advertisers can target Black Facebook users, among otherdemographics.
March 24, 2021
The Markup
We Ran Tests on Every State’s COVID-19 Vaccine Website
By Jon Keegan and Colin Lecher
The results, measuring accessibility and privacy protections, were not always great.
February 16, 2021
The Markup
Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook
By Jon Keegan, Colin Lecher, and Corin Faife
Data from Citizen Browser shows how rare it is for a post to be called “false”—especially if you’re the president.
January 14, 2021
The Markup
Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
By Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook surrounding the seige of the U.S. Capitol.
October 20, 2020
The Markup
Why Can’t I Fix My Own Phone, Toaster, or Tractor?
By Jon Keegan
Manufacturers in a broad range of industries have a monopoly on who repairs machines—and when devices are deemed unfixable. Here's a look at the Right to Repair movement and the effort to codify such a right in law.
September 17, 2020
The Markup
Labeled “Research” Chemicals, Doping Drugs Sold Openly on Amazon.com
By Jon Keegan and Annie Gilbertson
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides.
July 21, 2020
The Markup
Is This Amazon Review Bullshit?
By Jon Keegan
Spotting the fakes isn’t always possible, but here are some tips.
June 18, 2020
The Markup
Amazon’s Enforcement Failures Leave Open a Back Door to Banned Goods—Some Sold and Shipped by Amazon Itself
By Jon Keegan and Annie Gilbertson
The online giant bans products related to drugs, spying and weapons, but we found plenty for sale; one of the items bought on the site left a grim trail of overdoses.