Nonprofit outfit The Markup has released a real-time tool to inspect a website's privacy practices. Enter the web address for any website, and Blacklight will reveal the specific tracking technologies, data sharing and surveillance efforts the site is using on its users. Read more information on how Blacklight came to be and some of its revelations in this Twitter thread.
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