[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Oct 14, 2021

• Government Secretly Orders Google to Identify Anyone Who Searched a Sexual Assault Victim's Name, Address and Telephone Number [forbes.com]
  Google complies with invasive "keyword warrants" that identify anyone who searched for a specific term. Thomas Brewster reports on how this puts innocent bystanders at risk. DuckDuckGo doesn't have any search histories by design and, because of that, has had 0 search warrants (of any kind) since our founding in 2008.
• The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet [nytimes.com]
  Since Apple released the pop-up allowing users to ask apps not to track their data, over 80% of iPhone users have opted out of tracking, challenging data-hungry advertisers to respect consumer privacy reports Brian X. Chen.
• The Smart Toilet Era Is Here! Are You Ready to Share Your Analprint With Big Tech? [theguardian.com]
  Talk about flushing your data down the toilet! Emine Saner reports on the privacy risks of smart toilets: "Once you start to measure something that is of the body, the privacy line is stepped over."
• QR Codes Are a Privacy Problem — but Not for the Reasons You've Heard [washingtonpost.com]
  "QR codes alone don’t infringe on your privacy, but the websites they open might... A retailer’s site could send your information to any number of third-party companies," reports Tatum Hunter. Download our app to easily block these trackers.
• Facebook Will Not Fix Itself [time.com]
  Former Facebook advisor Roger McNamee wrote about how privacy violations power Facebook: "The economics of surveillance capitalism come from converting human experience into data, building models for every human from that data, and using those models to predict and influence behavior."
• Privacy Reset: A Guide to the Important Settings You Should Change Now [washingtonpost.com]
  "Personal info feeds an ecosystem [built on] likes/unconscious habits to sell us things... even manipulate our politics. Once that data is out of our hands, we lose power." Check out Heather Kelly and Geoffrey A. Fowler's guide on privacy settings.
• Epic Games Makes Children's Privacy Services Free for Developers [theverge.com]
  Epic Games is making its parent verification services free for all developers "... to enable more developers to create safer digital experiences, while empowering parents to make the choices that are right for their families." Makena Kelly reports.

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