[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Oct 28, 2021

• Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Added to a Facebook Privacy Lawsuit. [nytimes.com]
  The Attorney General for Washington DC is now looking to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible for misleading users about Facebook's data privacy practices, reports Cecilia Kang.
• Facebook is Researching AI Systems That See, Hear, and Remember Everything You Do [theverge.com]
  Facebook is creating AR glasses and wants to build AI systems that essentially sub in for human memory, "constantly analyzing peoples’ lives using first-person video; recording what they see, do, and hear..." reports James Vincent. That's a 'Duck No' from us.
• FTC Staff Report Finds Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Collect Troves of Personal Data, Users Have Few Options to Restrict Use [ftc.gov]
  The FTC released a new report on ISP collection of browsing history. Our app has Smarter Encryption that upgrades your website connections to HTTPS (encrypted) wherever we can. This shields many specific pages you are visiting from ISPs.
• Do You Track Your Steps, Sleep and Food? You Could Be Signing Away Your Privacy [irishtimes.com]
  Do you use apps to track your health? Simon Usborne examines the privacy implications and considers "...what if that data also gets used to decide who gets the next promotion or whose health-insurance policy needs adjusting?"
• How Companies Can Do Data Privacy Better [insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu]
  Privacy isn't a niche concern: new research from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management shows how consumers evaluate new products based on privacy practices. "As users become more and more aware, they start to choose companies based on whether the companies are preserving privacy."

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