- We're Thankful for You: 15 Years of DuckDuckGo [spreadprivacy.com]
In case you missed it, we're celebrating 15 years of DuckDuckGo! We launched our private search engine in 2008, and because of users like you, we've been able to grow to be so much more: a free browser with private search engine — and more than a dozen other web tracking protections — built right in. (Many of which you can only get by default DuckDuckGo.)
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In the news...
- This Is Why Google Paid Billions for Apple to Change a Single Setting [nytimes.com]
How much are default settings worth? During the U.S. Google antitrust trial, Google revealed that it paid $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine on various platforms. "If it were all as simple as people changing their settings," says Zeynep Tufekci, "Google wouldn’t be forking over a sum larger than the G.D.P. of entire countries to have Apple users start with one setting rather than another. The default way the technology industry does business needs to change now."
- The Face Is the Final Frontier of Privacy [time.com]
The TSA plans to expand their facial recognition pilot to 400 airports — despite civil rights and privacy concerns related to unregulated AI technology. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, says, "No traveler should be made to feel like they have to give up their valuable biometric data. All gate agents should verbally tell passengers they have a right to opt out instead of relying solely on ill-placed signage."
- Judge Rejects Elon Musk's Attempt to Kill Twitter/FTC Privacy Settlement [arstechnica.com]
"The May 2022 settlement with the FTC came in response to Twitter targeting ads at users with phone numbers and email addresses collected from those users when they enabled two-factor authentication. US authorities are investigating whether the Musk-owned social network, now officially called X, is complying with the settlement's privacy and security requirements." Jon Brodkin reports.
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