Privacy News Round-Up #63 
- FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations: A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space. It’s more helpful to consider this part of a paper trail the agency is laying down in order to justify new regulations in the space.
- LinkedIn has stopped grabbing UK users’ data for AI: The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data for AI model training for now.
- Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech: Mozilla, the nonprofit that develops the Firefox web browser, has been hit with a complaint by European Union privacy rights group noyb, which accuses it of violating the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by tracking Firefox users by default without their permission.
- The Tor Project merges with Tails, a Linux-based portable OS focused on privacy: The Tor Project is merging operations with Tails, a portable Linux-based operating system focused on preserving user privacy and anonymity.
- German prosecutors able to deanonymize TOR seemingly for years using timing analysis & tapping servers: The Tor network is considered the most important tool for moving anonymously on the Internet. Authorities have begun to infiltrate it in order to expose criminals. They were successful in at least one case. [German]