[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Dec 23, 2021

• Virtual Worlds, Real People: Human Rights in the Metaverse [eff.org]
  Tech companies are investing in virtual and augmented reality, but "these devices will collect huge amounts of data about our homes and private spaces, and could allow governments, companies, and law enforcement illegitimate access to our lives." The Electronic Frontier Foundation shares how we can apply existing lessons to protect human rights in the Metaverse.
• Twitter Has a Confusing New Policy on What Images You Can Post. Here's What You Need to Know. [washingtonpost.com]
  Twitter announced a new policy earlier this month stating that: if you share an image or video of someone without their consent, the company can take it down — unless it’s in the public interest to leave it up. Tatum Hunter clears up some uncertainties around the policy.
• Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight [themarkup.org]
  A United States government study finally acknowledges that the federal court system has been "under-reporting the amount of wiretap orders that are actually issued" and "failing to keep up with modern tech and surveillance techniques." Alfred Ng reports.
• The Tor Project PrivChat #6: Privacy is a Human Right [youtube.com]
  "Governments, corporations, and other powerful entities routinely block us from exercising our right to privacy through surveillance, monitoring, and tracking," explains The Tor Project. Watch their PrivChat, hosted by The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn, on privacy as a human right.

And finally…

• DuckDuckGo in 2021: Building the Privacy Super App [spreadprivacy.com]
  We believe online privacy should be simple and accessible to everyone. Period. Our Founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, wrote about all the progress we made in 2021 making it easy for people to take back their privacy now with one download.

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