Tag: privacy

Apple CEO Escalates Battle With Facebook Over Online Privacy

SAN RAMON, California—Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off a series of thinly veiled shots at Facebook and other social media companies Thursday, escalating an online privacy battle pitting the iPhone maker against digital services that depend on tracking people to help sell ads. “Too many are still asking the question ‘how much can we get…


DuckDuckGo Search Engine Reaches More Than 100 Million Daily Search Queries

The 12-year-old search engine DuckDuckGo (DDG) reached 100 million search queries for the first time on Jan. 11, ZDNet reported. The privacy-focused search engine has been experiencing sustained expansion for two years. It began having 2 billion-plus search queries a month regularly in August 2020. Google has 5 billion daily search queries, making the DuckDuckGo…


Feds Have Not ‘Demonstrated Need’ for Security-Screening Measures of Public Servants: Privacy Watchdog

OTTAWA—The federal privacy watchdog is pressing for changes to security screening procedures for public servants. An internal memo prepared by the privacy commissioner’s office says the government has “not demonstrated the need” for several intrusive measures—from credit checks to polygraph tests. The memo says the watchdog will continue to press the Treasury Board Secretariat to…