[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Jan 20, 2022

• Re: S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act [medium.com]
  We're proud to join 40+ companies in calling for the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of the American Innovation and Choice Act. This bill would make our market more competitive by barring self-preferencing tactics.
• Remove All Your Personal Info From the Internet: 6 Steps to Disappear for Good [cnet.com]
  Eric Franklin explains how to remove your personal information from the web. Going forward it helps to use DuckDuckGo so less of your information gets out there in the first place.
• The CNIL Fines Google a Total of 150 Million Euros and Facebook 60 Million Euros for Non-Compliance with French Legislation [cnil.fr]
  France's data protection authority has given Google and Facebook three months to make it as easy to refuse cookies as it is to accept them. Great work from the CNIL in chasing down "dark patterns."
• One of the Creators of Google Glass is Experimenting with a Smart Retainer for Texting with Your Tongue [buzzfeednews.com]
  A Google Glass creator is working on a smart retainer to allow users to text with their tongue. "It’s sort of obvious, the sensitivity of a device that goes inside your head," said the Electronic Privacy Information Center's John Davisson. "That’s going to present some privacy risks."
• Come the Metaverse, Can Privacy Exist? [wsj.com]
  Companies like Facebook are investing heavily into an augmented reality Metaverse... but how will privacy exist there? David Uberti asks experts to weigh in.
• Facebook is Giving You Homework to Learn About Its Privacy Settings [theverge.com]
  Mitchell Clark investigated Facebook's latest "Privacy Center", and found that Facebook "really puts the responsibility for the systems it builds onto the user." This "isn't a replacement for good defaults" (which are sorely lacking).

And finally…

• Your search history wasn't a data point
• What you searched (like cat memes) was your business and only yours
• You recognized your right to privacy and chose it!

Proudly Private,



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