[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Jun 18, 2020

• Always pay attention to app permissions at install. Many G Suite Marketplace apps have access to users’ Gmail & Drive accounts and communicate with undisclosed external services. [professionalhackers.in]
  To ditch Google completely, here's our list of alternatives.
• Until regulations "grounded in human rights" are put in place, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM will not sell facial recognition tech to police departments in the U.S. [theverge.com]
• Android user? JR Raphael says the onus is on you to update privacy settings — don't rely on the defaults. Tips include:
  • Review Google account permissions
  • Revisit Android app permissions
  • Use a VPN
  [computerworld.com]
• The ACLU is suing Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup with a database of 3 billion photos, for “unlawful, privacy-destroying surveillance activities.” “The bottom line is that, if left unchecked, Clearview’s product is going to end privacy as we know it." [nytimes.com]
• Thanks to anti-spam regulation 17 years ago, unsubscribing from marketing emails has become a familiar task. Now we need the same consistency across websites to make it easy to opt out of data collection and request data removal. [cylab.cmu.edu]
• Singaporeans are pushing back against contact tracing wearables. "The govt looks to COVID-19 as the perfect excuse... to surveil us with impunity, to track us without any technological inhibitions, and maintain a form of movement monitoring on each of us..." [zdnet.com]

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