Our picks of the must-read stories from around the web:

• Re/Code: Apple’s Latest Product Is Privacy (5 min read)
• Al-Jazeera: Google’s Privacy Whitewash (3 min read)
• Business Insider: All of Germany Just Signed Up To This Micropayment App (3 min read)
• MondayNote: The Redistribution Game for News (7 min read)
• AdWeek: ANA to Launch Fact-Finding Probe Into Media-Buying Kickback Claims (2 min read)
• Poynter: NYT to Publish Roughly 30 Stories Per Day Within Facebook (1 min read)
• Digiday: Copyranter: Between ad tech and creativity, an all-out war (4 min read)
• Fortune: One big problem with Facebook as a platform for news: It deletes things (4 min read)
• MediaPost: Fraud, Viewability and Rebate Issues All Cut From the Same Cloth (3 min read)
• Tow: What the 2015 Digital News Report Says About the USA’s News Landscape (7 min read)