[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Jul 2, 2020

• Attending a protest? Protect your data. [theverge.com]

  "Companies can even sell [demographic data from protesters' cellphones] to the government, which can use it for law & immigration enforcement," and there is no federal regulation stopping them. [buzzfeednews.com]

• Contact tracing apps from Bahrain, Kuwait, and Norway "tracked users’ locations in near real-time by frequently uploading GPS coordinates to a central govt server," Amnesty International found. [amnesty.org]

  MIT Technology Review is keeping track of more apps here: [flourish.studio]

• Oracle runs one of the biggest hidden tracking networks (led by their subsidiary BlueKai), and some of that data has been exposed online. [techcrunch.com]

  (Side note: You can block BlueKai (and other) tracking networks with our mobile app & browser extension.)

• Due to pressure from members of Congress and the public, Zoom will make end-to-end encryption available to ALL users, free and paid. [bloomberglaw.com]

  Look out for app updates and one-time opt-in details, coming soon. [zoom.us]

• "[COVID-19] testing raises novel privacy issues because of the scale of the data collection, the non-traditional methods and reasons for its collection, and the benefits and risks to sharing the data widely," says IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals). They highlight privacy questions we should be asking. [iapp.org]
• Are you fed up with companies selling your personal data for profit? Are you a resident of California? If you answered yes to these questions then this is a good week. From July 1, the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) started being enforced. [bizjournals.com]
• This useful guide from the EFF was put together to help protect the digital privacy of black, trans, disabled, and other historically targeted communities in physical and digital spaces. [eff.org]
• In the US? Fight For The Future lets you easily send a message to your members of Congress to push them to support the legislation to stop facial recognition, a surveillance technology that "is unreliable, unjust, and a threat to basic rights & safety." [banfacialrecognition.com]

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