[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Sep 17, 2020

• U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal [reuters.com]
  Finally! "The Ninth Circuit [US Court] said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional."
• Creepy ‘geofence’ finds anyone who went near a crime scene [wired.com]
  Reported by Sidney Fussell: law enforcement increasingly uses “geofence” warrants on Google to get info on all devices near crimes, an invasion of privacy leading to false accusations. Two judges have now said one such request is unconstitutional in the US.
• PopID’s face-based payments pose privacy and security risks [venturebeat.com]
  Beware PopID: the fast-growing face-based payment system "would do well to provide greater transparency regarding how it collects, stores, & processes facial data," says Kyle Wiggers. He outlines its risks, including bias, data ownership, & privacy.
• Apps for children must offer privacy by default [bbc.com]
  The UK gets a regulation, like COPPA in the US, to protect kids online: "a code of practice outlining how children's data should be protected has come into force and firms have 12 months to comply with the new rules."
• How Netflix film The Social Dilemma probes the dark side of tech [ft.com]
  If Netflix's "The Social Dilemma" opened your eyes to the Internet's manipulation/targeting, you can download our free mobile app or browser extension to protect yourself online.

And finally, new in iOS 14, Apple now allows you to set certain browsers as the default browser (other than Safari), and DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser is now an approved default browser. Also new in iOS 14, our browser provides home screen search widgets that allow you to search privately right from your home screen. Read more on our blog. [spreadprivacy.com]

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