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This is part three of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part four, about opening up app stores, is here. Part five, about enhancing “end-to-end” delivery on social media, is here. Download this entire series as a single PDF. The ad-tech industry is incredibly profitable, raking in hundreds of billions of dollars every year by spying on us. These companies have tendencies that reach into our apps, our televisions, and our cars, as well as most websites. Their hunger for our data is insatiable. Worse still, a…

(WTTW News) Chicago Public Schools is set to take additional steps to revamp its inventory management system, after a district watchdog found that more than 77,000 CPS-owned devices were marked as lost or stolen in recent years. The Chicago Board of Education this month will approve a month-long public comment period on proposed changes to the district’s existing asset and inventory management policy. That move came weeks after CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher published investigative results showing that $23 million worth of electronic devices were unaccounted for. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced CPS to switch to remote learning in early…