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LU344928 12-02-2019 02:12 AM
Startpage may not be so private now
 
It's all about the money. Again.

http://techrights.org/2019/10/16/sta...-surveillance/

syg00 12-02-2019 02:17 AM
Noooo .... damn.
Thanks for the heads-up.

hazel 12-02-2019 05:21 AM
And DDG as well?

syg00 12-02-2019 05:56 AM
I haven't used DDG is ages. Anything hosted in the states is subject to the whims of their agencies and courts. Especially us "aliens" ...

hazel 12-02-2019 06:07 AM
DDG isn't hosted in the States but in Switzerland, where they have very strict privacy laws. But the OP's link suggests that it was compromised long ago.

syg00 12-02-2019 06:14 AM
Hmmm - need to check; doesn't matter anyway, it's an American company and subject to US court search demands. Remember the M$soft email hosts in Ireland fiasco a while back ?.

Jan K. 12-02-2019 01:22 PM
Quote:
In summary, Privacy One Group is the very opposite of privacy, judging by the ‘upstream’ owner. It’s a mass surveillance operation, presumably for commercial reasons. Who the data gets shared with (e.g. search strings, what’s clicked and so on) we don’t know, but we must assume the worst. Oh, and just to be sure… everyone knows that DuckDuckGo (DDG) is also surveillance (and false marketing of privacy). Right?
If Privacy One Group is based in Holland (EU), they may see themselves in serious trouble as they - per description in article - certainly do *not* live up to the requirements in GDPR...

But DuckDuckGo? that's a first for me?

freemedia2018 12-02-2019 04:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jan K. (Post 6064011)
But DuckDuckGo? that's a first for me?
DDG <-> AWS <- very antithetical to privacy

(It's the only argument against DDG that I'm aware of.)

ferrari 12-02-2019 05:16 PM
Quote:
DDG <-> AWS <- very antithetical to privacy

(It's the only argument against DDG that I'm aware of.)
That's a learning for me.

hazel 12-03-2019 04:46 AM
Are we talking about Amazon here? I never would have guessed.

teckk 12-03-2019 12:05 PM
Oh, I never even noticed that before.

Code:
ping -c1 duckduckgo.com
PING duckduckgo.com (184.72.104.138) 56(84) bytes of data.
...

whois 184.72.104.138
NetRange:      184.72.0.0 - 184.73.255.255
CIDR:          184.72.0.0/15
NetName:        AMAZON-EC2-7
NetHandle:      NET-184-72-0-0-1
Parent:        NET184 (NET-184-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:     
Organization:  Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-4)
...

victoriadalton 12-24-2019 05:05 AM
This is really very risky

Flow_Control 12-25-2019 11:23 PM
Thank you for the updates.


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