ALT Chart: Which presidential candidates’ emails landed in Gmail’s primary inbox.

ALT Meme format that features Anakin Skywalker and Padmé from StarWars. Anakin is looking toward Padmé while her facial expression drastically changes. The text superimposed on Anakin reads "My site’s algorithm is contributing to extreme political polarization and leading to material violence." While the text over Padmé reads: "So you're going to fix it right?" "You're going to fix it, right?"

ALT Screenshot of congressional letter directed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. It reads "We write with grave concerns following a report that major tax preparation companies such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been “secretly transmitting sensitive financial information” to Meta and Google when Americans file their taxes online, including “data on users’ income, filing status, [and] refund amounts.” If true, this is an appalling breach of users’ trust and a potentially illegal abuse of sensitive taxpayer data that raises questions about the misuse of data by the tax preparation companies and about the role of Google in facilitating these abuses. Given these new reports, we seek a full accounting of and explanation for the disclosure of taxpayer data to Google." The rest of the letter is available at https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/TaxPrepMetaLetters.pdf

ALT Johns Hopkins Hospital [UCLA Reagan Medical Center] [New York Presbyterian Hospital] [Northwestern Memorial Hospital] [Duke University Hospital] [Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania] [Houston Methodist Hospital] [University of Chicago Medical Center] [University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center] [Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla]( [Barnes-Jewish Hospital] [Tufts Medical Center

ALT [Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center] [Jefferson Health - Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals] [Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital] [Loyola University Medical Center] [UnityPoint Health - Meriter] [Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital] [Inova Fairfax Hospital] [Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin] [St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea] [Sharp Memorial Hospital] [Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center] [Henry Ford Hospital]

ALT Screenshot of a Gmail inbox with the Primary, Social, and Promotions tabs enabled.

ALT Table that shares whether a hospital removed a tracking pixel after being contacted by The Markup. The hospitals and their response are as follows: Community health network, yes; edward-elmhurst health, yes; fastmed, no; novant health, yes; piedmont, yes; renown health, unknown; wakemed, yes.

ALT Screenshot of the Novant Health portal, showing responses to a survey on sexual orientation and gender identity.

ALT Screenshot of code on the Novant health Portal, highlighting a line that show the survey response, "Gay: men who are attracted to men," being sent to Facebook.

ALT Box for a Spirit Halloween costume that reads "Federal Privacy Regulations" and says "Includes: Nothing" as a reference toward the fact that the U.S. doesn't have a national privacy law.

ALT Chart that depicts residential addresses offered different download speeds for the same price in Kansas City. Its title reads "Historically redlined areas disproportionately received slow internet speeds in Kansas City, Mo." Below the text are two maps, side by side, shaded by their historical loan grade. Above the grade are black points that reveal which addresses were offered slow speeds. The left map reveals that 68% of addresses in redlined areas were offered slow speeds. The right map reveals that the fastest speeds were offered in historically high-rated areas.

ALT Screenshot of code on mychart.piedmont.org's website that shows a patient's name, the date and time of their appointment, and the name of their provider being sent to Facebook. The data has been redacted in yellow highlight by The Markup.

ALT Image of a snickers bar broken in half to reveal the inside. The inside is overlaid with a screenshot of the code for Meta's Pixel tracker.

ALT Graphic that reads "Providers offer different speeds for the same price" above a chart depicting price per megabit per second of download speed. It shows the range from worst to best deal for four internet providers, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Earthlink. The range for each company is as follows: Verizon, .13 to 5.63; EarthLink, .60 to 19.98; AT&T, .13 to 71.61; CenturyLink .25 to 100.00" The chart is attributed to Joel Eastwood. Source is: The Markup analysis of AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Earthlink

ALT Graphic that reads "Share of households in New Orleans, La., offered slow internet, by percentage of non-Hispanic White residents." Below the text is a 2-bar chart that depicts 77% for Least White and 45% for Most White areas. Below the chart is text that reads "Internet download speeds of less than 25 megabits per second. Chart credit is given to Joel Eastwood and Source: The Markup analysis of AT&T; U.S. Census Bureau"

ALT Graphic featuring a U.S. map. Text above it reads "In most cities, poorer neighborhoods were offered worse internet plans more often." The map depicts the Increase in share of addresses offered slow internet speed in lower-income areas compared to upper-income areas. It assigns a color to four different ranges and left 38 plots scattered across the U.S. with one of the colors in the range. Only Oklahoma City is called out by a label, which reads, "In Oklahoma City, Okla., more than 7 times as many households in poor neighborhoods were offered slow internet as in upper-income neighborhoodsIn Oklahoma City, Okla., more than 7 times as many households in poor neighborhoods were offered slow internet as in upper-income neighborhoods." Attribution is given to Joel Eastwood, Paroma Soni. Source: The Markup analysis of AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon; U.S. Census Bureau

ALT Screenshot of email from Cerebral to a user that reads "Cerebral Inc. takes your privacy seriously. We write to provide transparency regarding Cerebral’s prior data sharing practices via Tracking Technologies (as defined below) on portions of its websites and mobile applications and with certain subcontractors and other service providers. What Happened? Like others in many industries, including health systems, traditional brick and mortar providers, and other telehealth companies, Cerebral has used what are called “pixels” and similar common technologies, such as those made available by Google, Meta (Facebook), TikTok, and other third parties, on Cerebral’s Platforms. Cerebral has used Tracking Technologies since we began operations on October 12, 2019. Cerebral recently initiated a review of its use of Tracking Technologies and data sharing practices involving Subcontractors."

ALT Screenshot of a tweet from Steven Rich, whose handle is @dataeditor, that reads BREAKING: this site

ALT Applicants of color denied at higher rates To illustrate the odds of denial that our analysis revealed, we calculated how many people of each race/ethnic group would likely be denied if 100 similarly qualified applicants from each group applied for mortgages in the United States. 5 white applicants denied, 7 latino applicants denied, 7 asian/pacific islander applicants denied, 8 native american denied, and 9 Black denied.

ALT - Use messaging apps that can’t be intercepted Signal and Whatsapp are encrypted services - Turn off Location Tracking Turn on airplane mode or turn off location history/services - Use a passcode, not fingerprint or face recognition The longer your passcode the better. Passcodes have more legal protection than biometrics. Turn off or obscure notifications If your phone is seized notifications can reveal info about anyone getting in touch with you -Before You Share Take screenshots of any photos and post those instead to strip out identifying metadata. Cover up identifying information for people and locations -Physicalize Your Phonebook Phones can run out of battery, get lost, broken, or taken away. Write down a lawyer or emergency contact on your arm in Sharpie -NYC National Lawyers Guild support hotline: (212) 679-6018 -More information at themarkup.org/prepmyphone