Duck Duck Go a pirate facade.

There are several articles within the press recently concerning users flocking to DuckDuckGo within the wake of the recent National Security Agency snooping revelations. If you find yourself in this category, keep reading. If you utilize DuckDuckGo exclusively for the plethora of different blessings, like reducing pesky ad tracking, filter boxing, etc, then reading beyond this point is purely for your own amusement. DuckDuckGo can offer you a minimum of that level of “privacy", and that you should already know.

In orher words  DuckDuckGo is taking advantage of the presently furor over NSA spying with statements concerning privacy while not truly providing privacy protection from the varieties of spying the NSA is participating in (and not stating this clearly).

Standard Wiretaps
DuckDuckGo will simply be compelled either underneath the Communications help for enforcement Act (CALEA), customary court orders, or by secret orders from the Foreign Intelligence police work Court (FISA) to produce tap-on-demand.  I don’t suppose anyone will dispute that.  If you're specifically targeted in Associate in Nursing investigation, you'll be able to bank on the very fact that every one of your searches and their history “going forward” once the judicial writ are going to be collected on you and keep.


Google has a minimum of a transparency report description the amount of non-FISA requests it receives and currently a “ballpark” reportage of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests.  Users ought to demand constant of DuckDuckGo.

Deep Integration 

DuckDuckGo has created lots of fodder regarding their privacy, however like several alternative technology firms they need remained silent regarding their collaboration, if any, with enforcement and security agencies.

Why should not they? they're reaping the advantages of AN uninstructed people flocking to their service to avoid the NSA dragnet.  The privacy they provide is privacy from third-party advertisers and cross-site chase.


The MarCom departments of massive players like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al. have gotten smart at crafting extraordinarily fastidiously worded denials through lies of omission.

DuckDuckGo says:
DuckDuckGo doesn't store any personal data, e.g. scientific discipline addresses or user agents
But what if DuckDuckGo provided a splitter-feed to the NSA?  DuckDuckGo will claim while not lying that they store no personal data, however that speaks nothing of a collaborating partner storing it.

Can they refuse to collaborate with the NSA if approached?  If one appearance at the recent reports regarding Yahoo! et al. the solution is “No, you cannot”.   Yahoo! apparently created joint efforts to resist, causing lawyers into battle, and ultimately (and silently) lost the fighting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court.  “Silently” as a result of their loss and also the ruling that handed  it down is additionally secret.


Assume, negative bank on, the actual fact that firms situated at intervals the u.  s. is and square measure being compelled to participate in programs like PRISM and square measure lawfully overpowered to refuse.

The United States government now recognizes League of Legends players as professional athletes and awards visas for them to come to the country to play.

Riot Games eSports manager Nick Allen told GameSpot in a new video interview (below) that the "groundbreaking" decision came about after much back-and-forth between the developer and the government.

"So the United States government recognizes League of Legends pro players as professional athletes and award visas to essentially work in the United States under that title," Allen said. "This is groundbreaking for eSports; now we can start looking at international players when they come over. It's a much easier process because they're actually recognized by the government. This is a huge thing."

"This was a lengthy process; we had a lot of people fighting for this. It wasn't something that happened overnight," Allen continued.

He further explained that Riot went back and forth with the government multiple times before enough evidence was provided to prove that the game is a legitimate sport.

Via Gamespot