[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For May 14, 2020

• Clearview AI (yes, them again) are now pitching their facial recognition technology to track people with coronavirus. Having your identity linked with your location & health records, without oversight, is a huge risk that cannot easily be undone. [nbcnews.com]
• Before buying old phones, check whether they can be updated with the latest privacy & security enhancements. Support can be short-lived for Android in particular. Andrew Hoyle explains the risks and, if you can't use a newer phone, how to protect yourself. [cnet.com]
• With more people working from home, more employers are invasively monitoring employees. It doesn't have to be this way. Our organization (DuckDuckGo) has been 100% remote for a decade without any monitoring. It's all about trust. [washingtonpost.com]
• "All the new coronavirus protocols that companies are considering for their workers and customers – from contact tracing and temperature-taking to heat mapping and 'immunity passports' – have privacy and civil liberties implications." — Jennifer Kingson [axios.com]
• 66% of people surveyed said they "always or mostly use the same password or a variation" across different websites. [theregister.co.uk]
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• Zoom's growing popularity brought its privacy practices under scrutiny, revealing a larger issue: most software has not been made secure by default. "Zoom’s case has made more obvious that security & privacy are not optional but what people truly need." [privacyinternational.org]

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