DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly
The Cost of
the ”New Way to Message on
Instagram” [eff.org]
Instagram user? We advocate avoiding
in general since they’re owned by
Facebook, but nevertheless beware of
notifications to ”upgrade” to the new
messenger: 1) It links Instagram to
Facebook messenger and 2) doesn’t let
you switch back.
Police Will
Pilot a Program to Live-Stream
Amazon Ring Cameras [eff.org]
”Now, our worst fears have been
confirmed. Police in Jackson,
Mississippi, have started a pilot
program that would allow Ring owners
to patch the camera streams from their
front doors directly to a police Real
Time Crime Center,” says Matthew
Guariglia.
To Head Off
Regulators, Google Makes Certain
Words Taboo [themarkup.org]
Google’s attempt to appear innocent in
antitrust investigations? Just stop
employees from sounding guilty… ”Taboo
words include ’market,’ ’barriers to
entry,’ and ’network effects,’ which
is when products become more valuable
as more people use them.”
Portland,
Maine Has Voted to Ban Facial
Recognition [theverge.com]
”Portland is just the latest city to
swear off [facial recognition
technology], following previous bans
by Boston, San Francisco, and
Portland, Oregon,” says Russell
Brandom. Let’s hope this moves to the
federal level!
All the Ways
Slack Tracks You – and How to Stop
It [wired.com]
Using Slack at work? Matt Burgess
breaks down how it tracks you &
who can see your data/messages,
advising ”If you really need to send
that bitchy message, it may be worth
considering a different, encrypted
platform. Or really, just not saying
it at all.”
Is Your
Favorite Podcast Tracking You?
[themarkup.org]
”At least for now, podcasting is still
a fairly private activity, in that it
doesn’t produce much data on its own,”
says Adrianne Jeffries, but ”companies
are devising ways to provide
advertisers with data that will
persuade them to spend more.”
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