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Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant - a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Headquartered in the US so I wouldn't guarantee it.
This was against Google specifically but I would imagine it would hold up against any US based search engine they felt someone was using.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, they must respond to a subpoena. But they don't retain search records, do they?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In some cases they must retain the information. Like your ISP in the USA had to retain data for le purposes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your statement contradicts their stated policy, and I'm not aware of any such requirement in the US.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

IP retention is addressed in the first paragraph under "privacy policy", and it stated they don't save or log it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you know? You don't control their servers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your point is not unique: all websites require your trust.

So if that's your threat model you can't use any search engine.

But if we want to put that aside and discuss their stated policy, then the link I provided addressed the parent statement that

In some cases they must retain the information. Like your ISP in the USA had to retain data for le purposes.

Which directly refutes that there is any such requirement.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

You shouldn't trust any search engine. That's my point.