[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Dec 24, 2020

• Facebook 'Secretly' Tracks Your iPhone Location – This Is How to Stop It [forbes.com]
  "If you tell Facebook not to collect location information from your iPhone, then it doesn’t, right? Wrong." Facebook harvests, collects, and stores location metadata from your iPhone photos. Zak Doffman shares some steps you can take to stop them.
• France Fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for Dropping Tracking Cookies Without Consent [techcrunch.com]
  Yet again (we've lost count at this point), Google was caught tracking people without their consent. This time by France and fined €100 million ($120 million).
• How to Manage Your Privacy Settings for Social Media [hacked.com]
  Social media user? Follow William Worrall's guide to managing your privacy across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tik Tok.
  Side note: For a much more private experience, ditch social apps altogether and use their websites within our privacy browser.
• Brittany Kaiser Reveals the Tools She Uses to Protect Her Data Privacy [siliconrepublic.com]
  You don't have to be a tech whiz to protect your data online – you just have to use the right tools.
• Privacy Group Asks for Investigation Into Software That Spies on Students [vice.com]
  Exam proctoring companies that surveil students are under investigation for deceptive practices. Action could mean "legal accountability for black-box algorithms… in areas like criminal justice, housing, and health care," says John Davisson.

And finally…

• Working from Home? Consider These Privacy-Focused Tools [spreadprivacy.com]
  Did you know DuckDuckGo's team is fully remote across 17 countries? Here's our list of work-from-home privacy-focused tools, including:
  • Email → Fastmail; ProtonMail; Tutanota
  • Chat → Mattermost; Signal
  • File storage/backup → Resilio Sync; Tresorit

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