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I agree, I still think it is relevant to treat actual privacy violations differently from engineering choices that might make privacy violations easier in the f
by afiori 6y ago
I agree, I still think it is relevant to treat actual privacy violations differently from engineering choices that might make privacy violations easier in the future.
My opinion is that DDG should have never made this choice in the first place, but as far as I am concerned this is at the level of an implementation detail that can be improved, not as if DDG was intentionally using user data in some non-private way.
- marcinzm 6y agoThe concern as I see it is that this issue and the initial DDG response to it shows a lack of understanding of technical privacy controls. What they are and why they matter so much. DDG's backend is not audited and so one wonders if that same lack of understanding applies to the backend as well. DDG cites privacy policies but, in my experience, the best policies are backed with strict technical controls as humans never follow policies perfectly on their own.