- Analyzing Week One of Google Search's Antitrust Remedies Trial [techpolicy.press]
"Google and the US Department of Justice returned to federal court on April 21 for the remedies phase to dismantle Google’s monopoly over search, as Judge Amit Mehta ruled last August. The first week of this trial showed a stark contrast between the DOJ and Google’s positions on the scope of penalties for breaking antitrust law in digital markets," says Karina Montoya.
"While the DOJ is focused on showing the feasibility of its proposed remedies, Google is unmoved in its disagreement with the judge’s ruling, reflecting the tech giant’s intent to appeal it after the remedies phase is over." Read more, including a statement from our CEO and Founder, Gabriel Weinberg, here.
In the news...
- Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show [wired.com]
"A cache of more than two dozen police records recently reviewed by WIRED show US law enforcement agencies regularly trained on how to take advantage of 'connected cars,' with subscription-based features drastically increasing the amount of data that can be accessed during investigations. The records make clear that law enforcement’s knowledge of the surveillance far exceeds that of the public and reveal how corporate policies and technologies—not the law—determine driver privacy." Dell Cameron reports.
- How California Sent Residents' Personal Health Data to LinkedIn [themarkup.org]
"The website that lets Californians shop for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, coveredca.com, has been sending sensitive data to LinkedIn," according to forensic testing by The Markup.
"As visitors filled out forms on the website, trackers on the same pages told LinkedIn their answers to questions about whether they were blind, pregnant, or used a high number of prescription medications. The trackers also monitored whether the visitors said they were transgender or possible victims of domestic abuse." To learn more about how invisible tracking pixels gather and share sensitive information, you can check out the rest of The Markup's Pixel Hunt series.
- Read Receipts Can Be a Privacy Risk on iPhone or Android. Here's How to Turn Them Off [cnet.com]
Using read receipts in your messaging platform may seem harmless, but "they can give scammers information that helps them target you. Someone who sends you a spam text might be more likely to continue targeting you if they see that you're a real human who's read their message. And if they share your phone number with other scammers, it could lead to a host of text-message phishing (or 'smishing') scams." Yikes.
CNET explains how to easily turn off your read receipts on iPhone and Android. (If you use iMessage, you can also keep them on for specific contacts of your choice.)
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