[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Dec 2, 2021

• How Cellphone Data Collected for Advertising Landed at U.S. Government Agencies [wsj.com]
  Byron Tau sheds light on the shady data broker industry and its harms, including consumer data winding up in the hands of government entities. "Because the U.S. has no comprehensive privacy law, nothing explicitly bars the use of consumer data in this manner."
• The End of "Click to Subscribe, Call to Cancel"? [niemanlab.org]
  Should a company be allowed to offer subscription sign ups online but make cancellations only available over the phone? The FTC says no. We agree and believe it's dark patterns like these that erode trust online. Sarah Scire reports.
• Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data [wired.com]
  Amazon says its mission is to become the most customer-centric company, but a WIRED investigation reveals that their "user data is so sprawling, fragmented and promiscuously shared within the company that the security division couldn’t even map all of it..."
• Be Smart. Shop Safe. [foundation.mozilla.org]
  Starting your holiday shopping? Mozilla's annual "Privacy Not Included" gift guide is a great resource to help choose privacy-friendly tech.
• Facebook Accused of Continuing to Surveil Teens for Ad Targeting [techcrunch.com]
  In summer 2021, Facebook claimed they're limiting how advertisers can reach kids. But in in Fall 2021, Fairplay, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia found that Facebook "failed to make meaningful change to protect [teens] from hyper manipulative marketing." Natasha Lomas with the details.

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