A look at data brokers selling campaigns “comprehensive” profiles on potential voters, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time ad auctions (Jon Keegan/The Markup)

Bennett Cyphers / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A profile of Fog Data Science, which purchases raw geolocation data collected by mobile apps and sells it to law enforcement agencies for a subscription fee  —  This article is part of EFF’s investigation of location data brokers and Fog Data Science.  Be sure to check out our issue page on Location Data Brokers.

Justine Calma / The Verge:
Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub globally and improved wildfire tracking in more countries  —  Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today.  It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …

Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:
Experts say political ads on Meta’s platforms no longer represent good ROI, thanks to a stagnating user base and policy changes that make targeting voters hard  —  Beth Becker had just finished teaching Democrats how to use Facebook’s digital tools at the Netroots conference in Pittsburgh …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access  —  The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook.

Matt Day / Bloomberg:
The Amazon Labor Union withdraws its petition for an election at a southern California warehouse, after losing an election at a New York warehouse last week  —  Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to join a union at a company warehouse in Southern California have backed away from their attempt …

The Markup:
Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions  —  An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income …