[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Sep 10, 2020

• Google's own engineers said the company 'confuses users' on privacy settings, now the subject of a lawsuit [businessinsider.com]
  A Google engineer on Google's location tracking settings: "Speaking as a user, WTF? More specifically I thought I had location tracking turned off on my phone."
• iOS 14: This Hidden New Feature Is A Momentous Leap For iPhone Privacy [forbes.com]
  iOS 14 will give users the ability to give apps their approximate location, without revealing where they are, reports Kate O'Flaherty.
  Not an iPhone user? The New York Times' Jennifer Valentino-DeVries shares how to opt out of location tracking.
• Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app [techcrunch.com]
  Albion College is requiring students to download and install contact tracing app Aura, and we're happy to hear parents are protesting. "The app is designed to track students’ real-time locations around the clock, and there is no way to opt out."
• Privacy considerations to keep in mind with Amazon's Halo [cnbc.com]
  "[Amazon] changed expectations around convenience and personalized recommendations and is now selling a device and membership to collect some of the most intimate health details of a person’s life."
• I Just Got a COVID-19 Test. Who Now Knows I Got It? [themarkup.org]
  Companies like Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp profit off your medical data… and they're major providers of private COVID-19 tests. "Health info is supposed to be impossible to trace back to patients; it doesn't always work out that way," says Colin Lecher.
• What If Technology Belonged to the People? [vice.com]
  "Networked platforms [treat individuals as] consumers in a market bidding for commodities like housing and healthcare, not citizens with certain rights and privileges. [They]… have no motive other than scale and market dominance," says Edward Ongweso Jr.
• Remote Learning During Pandemic Brings Privacy Risks [wsj.com]
  When it comes to apps and digital tools for kids' remote learning "there’s just a need for more plain language, guidance, training and resources to better make sure that student privacy is protected.” David Uberti urges regulators to do their part.

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