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DuckDuck Whoa?

As internet privacy concerns have grown so has DuckDuckGo with over ten million daily searches on average. However, in a recent tweet, DDG founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, stated that the company would update its search algorithm to down-rank Russian disinformation sites and they would pause its relationship with the Russian-state-owned search engine Yandex. This has outraged some users.

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Private Search

I think every American should know that in 2009 then Google CEO Eric Schmidt, stated, “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” To me, that sounds like a statement from a high Soviet or Chinese official—not an American.

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Facebook & Me

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook had a gradual rollout, becoming widely available in 2004. The site now has nearly three billion users and earns revenue by collecting information about each of them. Advertisers can then use that information to better target their ads. Facebook may say the site is free but, users give up personal information to use the platform. TNSTAAFL, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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