[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Oct 21, 2021

• Support Builds for Bipartisan Legislation From Klobuchar, Grassley, and Colleagues to Rein in Big Tech [klobuchar.senate.gov]
  This past Monday, United States Senator Amy Klobuchar and Senator Chuck Grassley introduced the American Innovation & Choice Online Act, prohibiting companies like Google and Facebook from self-preferencing their own services to the detriment of consumers & competitors, like DuckDuckGo.
• There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data [themarkup.org]
  Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng identified 47 companies that you've probably never heard of who play a role in the ~$12 billion market after your phone’s location data.
• What Does a Future Without Manipulation Look Like? [afuturewithoutmanipulation.eu]
  A new study from the Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament shows what A Future Without Manipulation online looks like. Learn how companies are tracking you online and how the new EU Digital Services Act could limit them from doing so.
• Amazon Should Invent With Care [nytimes.com]
  Regarding Amazon's "sure, why not?" approach to inventing new tech, Shira Ovide warns: "When technologists don’t imagine how people will respond to what they create... we wind up with our digital info in so many hands that it’s dangerous."

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