| This month at Mozilla, we explore the deeply troubling privacy and security habits of top mental health apps; we introduce you to two Mozilla grantees who are challenging online surveillance and algorithmic bias; and we explore the fast-moving world of generative AI.  |
*Privacy Not Included Research Finds Too Many Mental Health Apps Are Even Worse at Privacy |
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| One year ago, *Privacy Not Included reviewed 32 popular mental health and prayer apps. At that time, it was the worst-performing product category our research team had ever seen. We wanted to know what’s changed over the last year? In addition to taking a second look at the most popular apps reviewed last year, our team researched five new apps that *Privacy Not Included readers asked us to look into. What we found was at times refreshing, sometimes creepy, and, on occasion, downright dangerous. |
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| A Q&A with Amarela Ribeiro, a Mozilla Fellow in the Tech and Society Fellowship program. Amarela is a researcher and communicator who runs digital care training programs, with a focus on educating social justice activists about online security and privacy. |
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| Mozilla Creative Media Awardee TRUTH uses positive storytelling to flip harmful online narratives about Black women. |
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| Blog ChatGPT is being used to write papers, news articles and even text message responses. Here’s how to tell if the text you’re seeing was written by AI. |
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| Press Senior Fellow Brandi Geurkink writes in WIRED about the ongoing transparency problems with social media algorithms. |
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| Policy Mozilla Weighs in on the DSA, a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to build a better internet. |
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| Press Senior Fellow Brandi Geurkink penned this op-ed on how independent researchers face unfair treatment for using web scraping tools to investigate platforms. |
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| Press Profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee TikTok Observatory and their work over the past year. |
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| Podcast Mozilla President Mark Surman cuts through the distracting AI hype and speaks about the challenges and hopes for AI ethics in this MIT Tech Review podcast episode. |
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| Webby Awards Thank you to everyone who voted. We’re very honored that our work has been recognised. Stay tuned for our five word speech. |
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| Partner BAD INPUT films by Consumer Reports explore how biases in algorithms result in unfair practices toward communities of color, often without their knowledge. |
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