[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Nov 11, 2021

• Antitrust Battle Latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to Smash Apple's Privacy Protections [theregister.com]
  Creepy companies creep together. New information from the lawsuit filed against Google by a group of United States attorneys general reveals how Google worked with Facebook to get around Apple's new privacy protections. Thomas Claburn reports.
• Sign the Petition: Shut Down Facebook's Surveillance Machine [howtostopfacebook.org]
  Facebook's dangerous algorithms use our own personal data to manipulate us. Fight for the Future is calling on lawmakers in the United States to "investigate the social network and pass a real data privacy law that ends their harmful business model forever."
• Android Search Choice Screen is Needed to Tackle Google's Market Power, says Australia's ACCC [techcrunch.com]
  Natasha Lomas reports on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) push to "mandate a choice screen in a bid to break Google’s dominance of the search market."
• How to Fix Facebook, Instagram and Social Media? Change the Defaults [wsj.com]
  One of Google and Facebook's most powerful tools to invade your privacy is something intentionally hidden: default settings. Joanna Stern explores how better defaults protect your privacy and make social media less toxic.
• Anonymity No More? Age Checks Come to the Web. [nytimes.com]
  Some companies are requiring government IDs or facial recognition to prove users' age as a safeguard for kids online, but experts warn that these practices "can endanger user privacy, dampen free expression, and hurt communities that benefit from anonymity online." David McCabe reports.

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