[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Jul 7, 2022

• New Search Engine Market Share Data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia [spreadprivacy.com]
  New sources of search market share data are now available from Cloudflare and Wikipedia. We recommend anyone citing search market data to use Cloudflare's report; its robust methodology and sample size make it a lot more accurate than other reports.
• 10 Principles for Fair Choice Screens and Effective Switching Mechanisms [spreadprivacy.com]
  The search engine and browser you use should be a personal choice, but right now it's often too complicated to switch away from gatekeeper defaults. We've published a set of common-sense principles with search engines Ecosia and Qwant to improve this experience.
• De-Identifying Medical Patient Data Doesn’t Protect Our Privacy [hai.stanford.edu]
  De-identified health data is not protected under United States Law, which means it can be freely shared and sold. Katharine Miller says healthcare consumers are largely unaware of the market in their health data, which has allowed the market for de-identified data to thrive.
• Your Phone’s Location Access Reveals a Lot. Here’s How to Turn It Off. [nytimes.com]
  Your phone is likely selling your location information to the highest bidder. But there are steps you can take to help prevent that. Thorin Klosowski shares why you should turn location access off and how to do it on iOS and Android.

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