#246: Talking Privacy with DuckDuckGo

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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As the consumer privacy debate rages on in the policy world, DuckDuckGo has made a name for itself by providing a range of privacy-protecting tools and services for consumers. DuckDuckGo CEO and Founder Gabriel Weinberg joins the show to discuss how users are tracked online, as well as what both DuckDuckGo and upcoming legislation are doing to change that. For more, see DuckDuckGo’s Do Not Track Act model legislation, their coalition letter in support of the Privacy for All Act, and our most recent episode on the encryption debate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian. On today's show, we have a very special guest. We have the founder and CEO of Duck.comgo, an internet privacy firm that is the most famous for their search engine that emphasizes the
0:22.1	searcher's privacy.
0:24.1	Gabriel Weinberg is joining us in our studio in DC.
0:27.1	Thank you for coming.
0:28.1	Hi, my pleasure.
0:29.1	All right, so let's dive right in.
0:32.1	I am so excited to have someone who started an internet company and went from a startup to a real big company,
0:39.7	that's trying to do a lot of good in the world.
0:41.9	So do you want to share with our listeners, where did it all start?
0:47.1	Was it like a garage, someone in Pennsylvania?
0:50.0	Basement.
0:50.7	Basement?
0:51.3	Okay.
0:51.9	Okay.
0:52.6	You got to play the stereotype.
0:54.6	Yeah, exactly. No, yeah, dusty basement, if youement. Okay. Okay. You got to play the stereotype. Yeah, exactly.
0:55.5	No, yeah, dusty basement, if you will.
0:58.2	2008, we've been operating kind of a node tracking search engine alternative for Google for the last decade.
1:04.6	And then in the last couple years, we realized that people really wanted, you know, kind of a more private solution in general on the
1:13.8	web. And so we revitalized our mobile apps and browser extensions to offer kind of a bundle
1:20.9	of privacy tools that work seamlessly. And so it includes private search, but also tracker blocking,
1:26.2	blocking trackers across the web, and more
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