Yo, technology.

What is it all about?

They're doing a form of privacy washing, which they're trying to, it's really a deliberate

attempt to use privacy, you know, to invoke privacy to help their brand, but not actually

deliver it to consumers.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes

and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

It has been quite a week.

So obviously the big four tech CEOs, Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos for the first time ever,

Sundar Pichai, and Tim Cook of Apple.

We're hauled before Congress this week, which mostly involved a lot of histrionics

and grandstanding and nonsense.

But also, for the first time, it really showed that this 13-month investigation

into these companies has been a huge education for lawmakers. So there were actually some

tough, quite probing questions mixed into all the other hullabaloo. And many of those questions

were drawn from something like 1.3 million emails and documents that the companies have been forced to produce as part of this whole investigation.

Anyhow, point is, you will have read about all of that by the time you hear this podcast.

So I thought a better way to address kind of the big tech crackdown, what is happening, and why was to talk to one of the

little guys who have been valiantly fighting against Google in the background for all these years.

And that company is Duck, Duck, Go, which is a privacy-focused search engine, at least that's

how it started out.

Now they do a whole bunch more around privacy.

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