[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Jul 15, 2021

• After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users [themarkup.org]
  Back in January we shared a story from The Markup about Facebook recommending political groups to users, despite their promises not to, "specifically to stop amplifying divisive content". We're not surprised that they've yet to stop.
• US State Privacy Legislation Tracker [iapp.org]
  Live in the US? The International Association of Privacy Professionals' legislation tracker lists proposed and enacted comprehensive privacy bills from across the country.
• How Online Ads Discriminate [edri.org]
  This report from EDRi investigates how "discrimination occurs in ad targeting, providing evidence of this practice in Europe" and urges lawmakers to stop "ad tech discrimination by strengthening regulatory authorities" and conducting a sweeping reform.
• 'Don't Lie': FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Why Today's Data Privacy Approaches Don't Work (Audio Q&A) [digiday.com]
  On the tail of FTC’s rare public meeting on July 1, Kate Kaye interviewed FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on her thoughts on a range of issues including data abuses and unfair and deceptive approaches to data collection that employ dark patterns.

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