Google is making Chrome more private, but advertisers will still track you

[Google, like Facebook, says it now wants to give users more control over which of their data it shares with advertisers.](But is that enough? [Google said on Thursday](that it would create a “Privacy Sandbox” — a new set of standards on its Google Chrome web browser that, in Google’s view, will “build a more private web.” The proposed standards would make it harder for advertisers to follow your search history, and they would give you more discretion over what types of data are distributed to marketers and allow you multiple opportunities to essentially opt out. Even if these pivots are earnest, Google, similar to Facebook, will have to overcome the wide consumer distrust of Big Tech platforms. - Why now? Google is being squeezed by competitors that are beginning to offer browsers with more privacy controls. Google and [Facebook, which released its new Clear History tool](, are effectively acknowledging that they need to meet customer demand for increased privacy options — their businesses, after all, depend on customer trust. But Google still has much to spell out about how exactly it envisions the future of private web browsing. [[Theodore Schleifer / Recode](] [It’s been a hot ransomware summer for several American cities.](This year, the New York Times reports, more than 40 municipalities have been the targets of ransomware attacks. As Recode reported earlier this year, the attacks are done when [“hackers deploy malicious software to block access to or take over a computer system until the owner of that system pays a ransom.”](Larger cities like Baltimore, Albany, and Laredo, Texas, and smaller towns including Lake City, Florida, have been targeted. The amount hackers demand in ransom varies: A March 2018 attack on Atlanta had a $51,000 in bitcoin ransom. In May, hackers demanded about $76,000 in bitcoin from Baltimore to release the city’s files. And Lake City agreed to pay about $460,000 in bitcoin to hackers. Intelligence officials say the attacks have come from Eastern Europe, Iran, and the United States. - Why is this happening? Ransomware attacks on cities were relatively rare only two years ago. “But now they are far more targeted, and as companies and towns have shown an increased willingness to pay ransoms, criminals have turned to new and more powerful forms of encryption,” according to the Times. [[Manny Fernandez, David E. Sanger, and Marina Trahan Martinez / New York Times](] [Internship interviews are still “a negative experience” for young female coders.]( Wired reports on a recent study from Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization supporting girls studying computer science, that found more than half of a group of 1,000 young women said they had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships, or that they knew another woman who had. “Negative experiences” included feeling dismissed or demeaned, being flirted with during an interview, or having interviewers make sexual remarks in their presence. - The big deal: The survey’s results and the personal stories Wired told show that many young women — which the tech industry needs to diversify their workforces — “are put off by their first encounters with tech companies.” [[Nitasha Tiku / Wired](] [WeWork’s founders, board members, and bankers “are giving the investing audience a good lesson in how not to go public in the age of the techlash,”]( writes Kara Swisher. In the New York Times, she writes that when the [prospectus for WeWork landed last week](, it ignited a strong reaction “around its numbers due to a lot of are-you-kidding-me content.” - Want more WeWork? 🎧 [Listen to Pivot](, as Swisher and her co-host Scott Galloway break down the reactions to WeWork’s prospectus and discuss the company’s potential IPO on the podcast’s latest episode. [[Kara Swisher / New York Times](] 📰 Weekend reads: - [T-Mobile "Put My Life in Danger" Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data]( [[Joseph Cox / Vice News](] - [Many are abandoning Facebook. These people have the opposite problem. []([Kashmir Hill / New York Times](] - [In defense of reading the same book over and over again.]( [[Rebecca Jennings / Vox](] - [The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm’s ties to ICE under attack by employees.]( [[Douglas MacMillan and Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post](] [Insert alt text here] [Google is cracking down on its employees’ political speech at work.]( Under political pressure, the company is restricting its historically open work culture. [[Shirin Ghaffary](] [DoorDash says it will roll out tipping changes to drivers sometime next month.]( But we still don’t know the exact date or all the details of the pay policy changes. [[Shirin Ghaffary](] [Coming up next month in NYC ...](#) [Join Recode’s Jason Del Rey and Kara Swisher at Code Commerce in New York on September 9 and 10.](They'll sit down for in-depth conversations with top commerce and tech executives about how innovation is transforming the way today's consumers choose to spend their money. They'll dig into emerging trends and what those trends mean for your business, including automation, the reinvention of malls, how direct-to-consumer brands use tech, automated grocery checkouts, and the future of payments. [You can get your Code Commerce ticket here.]( [Insert alt text here] [Plant-based meat: good for the environment, bad for your health?]( 🍔 [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences]( to receive fewer emails, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving all emails from Vox. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.