[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Sep 2, 2021

• Facebook's Updated Privacy Settings: How to Lock Down Your Account Now [forbes.com]
  A while ago, Facebook updated its privacy settings, making it more difficult to find and change them. You know how we feel about Facebook, but if you NEED to use it, Kate O'Flaherty shares tips on how to increase your privacy.
  
• Google Says Geofence Warrants Make Up One-Quarter of All Us Demands [techcrunch.com]
  Google's mass surveillance is allowing users wholly unconnected to a crime to land under police investigation. Zack Whittaker quotes Albert Fox Cahn, saying: "Geofence warrants are unconstitutionally broad and invasive."
  
• Facebook Releases Shelved Content Transparency Report After Criticism It Wasn't Being Transparent [theverge.com]
  Facebook tried to hide something that made the company look bad? Surprise, surprise! Kim Lyons uncovers that Facebook withheld its Q1 "transparency" report (which includes information like top links shared) and "released a sunnier Q2 version."
  
• The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools [wired.com]
  Documents reveal the NYPD bought a range of surveillance tools with no public oversight reports. Sidney Fussell questions just how much the NYPD is surveilling New Yorkers without their knowledge.
  
• As Big Companies Take Liberties With Customer Data, Mistrust Abounds [fastcompany.com]
  A new report "concludes there is a deep disconnect between company data practices and consumer privacy expectations" and uncovers that "almost a third of executives admit their company sometimes uses unethical data-collection methods." Mark Sullivan reports.
  

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