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• While Amazon will be forced to show a prompt that lets users opt-out, it can still track them once they're in its properties. Amazon can still monitor which ads they saw or clicked, or purchased from.
• Amazon has more than 200 million Prime members, which means the value of its consumer data to advertisers will increase due to Apple's recent changes.
• Amazon reports ad revenue under the “other” business category, which grew by 69% year-over-year in Q1 to $6.9B.

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• If companies “reasonably know” minors are on their websites, they must obtain consent before collecting data. Currently, companies are only required to seek consent if they have  “actual knowledge” youth under 13 are on their website or if they're directly targeting children.
• While similar bills have been introduced in the past, child safety advocates are more optimistic Congress will turn the legislation into law.
• In related news: 44 attorney generals asked Facebook to suspend plans to launch a special version of Instagram for children due to health concerns, potential exposure to online predators, and cyberbullying. Companies are required to obtain permission from parents if they collect data from users under 13 according to federal children’s privacy rules

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• After a few weeks, Whatsapp will issue "persistent reminders" and begin to limit functionality as users won't be allowed to access the standard chat list from the app. If users still don't accept the changes within an additional few weeks, they'll lose functionality.
• Why the policy is controversial: There are fears the changes will worsen WhatsApp's encryption, and user data will be shared with Facebook. However, the policy only impacts conversations with businesses as messages could be stored on Facebook's servers or used in advertising.
• Other platforms such as Signal and Telegram have risen in popularity since WhatsApp announced its new policy.

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• Local police aren't allowed to have contracts with private companies, but these restrictions don't exist for the state police or FBI.
• Privacy advocates argue the FBI and state police can share information they've obtained from private companies with local police.
• Cities like San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Portland have banned the use of facial recognition by law enforcement.

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• The move comes after Apple announced developers would be required to share their app's privacy practices in brief summaries on the App Store in December.
• Key Differences: Apple's labels highlight what data is being collected. Google is focused on informing users about if users can trust the entities collecting the data.
• The tech giant will introduce the new features in the second quarter of 2022.

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• The lawsuit alleges that Google uses its products such as YouTube, Gmail, and the Chrome browser to aggregate personal data about its users' locations, ethnicities, and interests.
• The information is auctioned off to bidders who want to advertise on a page that the user is likely to view.
• The suit argues that while there's only one auction winner, all participants can profit off of the information.
• Cotchett, Pitre, and McCarthy said it has been tracking these allegations for several months.

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• The agency said the risks would increase as more devices become interconnected.
• Failure to implement proper defense measures could result in “breaches of privacy,” according to the NCSC.
• In 2019, hackers successfully shut down the Johannesburg City Council's cyber network and energy distribution company.

• Musicians, academics, and human-rights groups are asking Spotify not to develop its newly patented technology for emotional speech recognition.
• 45 attorney generals have asked Congress to provide them with additional funding for the antitrust investigation.
• The Cyberspace Administration of China introduced new regulations to tighten state control over mobile app information sources and limit notification volumes.
• Zynga bought the advertising technology platform Chartboost for $250M as it adjusts to Apple's new privacy policies. Zynga owns hundreds of iPhone apps.
• Daniel Roesler, project lead of VAX.Codes discussed how Open Austin built a privacy-first COVID-19 vaccine verification system at our most recent privacy_infra() engineering event.