Digital privacy news for July 9, 2021

This episode was originally recorded and released on July 2nd, 2021. This week I’m covering: Apple Airtag speaker removal, fake names, Telegrams video calling, Google maps on iOS and governments using facial recognition software. All news sources are linked in the show notes on usefathom.com/weekly.

1. A letter sent to the EU and US governments to ban surveillance-based advertising
2. Secure chat app Wickr was acquired by Amazon
3. GETTR is a buggy, leaky Twitter clone with huge privacy and security holes
4. Google delays blocking third-party cookies in Chrome until 2023