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Thanks. I bring this up just because of very real geopolitical information/misinformation wars that we seem to find ourselves in today, that it is important for

Thanks. I bring this up just because of very real geopolitical information/misinformation wars that we seem to find ourselves in today, that it is important for the reputation of your company to be very clear of the sources of funding, or any other indications to whom the Mojeek may be beholden. I say these things with the greatest respect, and with a great amount of excitement, so that your company can gain the confidence you will need to grow.

ColinHayhurst 6y ago
Totally. We are going as far as we can on transparency in recent posts: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/10/who-funds-mojeek.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/10/who-funds-mojeek.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-about-mojeek-business-model-surveillance-privacy.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a... Extract from 2nd link: What happens if a certain government authority comes knocking, demanding all logs for a certain time period and IP range? User IP addresses are not logged, so it wouldn’t be possible for us to provide that information; we simply do not have it. Have you ever received any requests for information from any authority? At the time of writing we have not received any requests for information from any authority. If we were to be compelled by a court or similar to give over information, all we would ever able to hand over would be uncoupled search queries, referral data, and requested pages. We log, on aggregate, where traffic comes from at a country level, but we do not and never have logged or stored individual IP addresses. Any information about browsers used is uncoupled from search queries. Does being in the UK subject you to surveillance under the Snooper’s Charter? The Snooper's Charter (or Draft Communications Data Bill) was only a bill, it was never implemented. The similar ‘Investigatory Powers Act’ was passed, but that applies to Communication Service Providers, not us. As a non-tracking search engine which respects privacy, we don't store any IP addresses or other information that would be useful to the UK Government if they were looking to identify individuals and if we were compelled in court to hand it over. This all being said, we encourage all Mojeek users to use a wide variety of anti-surveillance and pro-privacy tools when browsing the Web. Can you be a private option whilst being resident in a Five Eyes member country? The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As Mojeek does not store IP addresses, there would be very little useful information to hand over to the Five Eyes nations were they to compel us to give them data or to allow them to access to Mojeek’s backend.

ColinHayhurst 6y ago

Totally. We are going as far as we can on transparency in recent posts: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/10/who-funds-mojeek.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/10/who-funds-mojeek.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-about-mojeek-business-model-surveillance-privacy.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a... Extract from 2nd link: What happens if a certain government authority comes knocking, demanding all logs for a certain time period and IP range? User IP addresses are not logged, so it wouldn’t be possible for us to provide that information; we simply do not have it. Have you ever received any requests for information from any authority? At the time of writing we have not received any requests for information from any authority. If we were to be compelled by a court or similar to give over information, all we would ever able to hand over would be uncoupled search queries, referral data, and requested pages. We log, on aggregate, where traffic comes from at a country level, but we do not and never have logged or stored individual IP addresses. Any information about browsers used is uncoupled from search queries. Does being in the UK subject you to surveillance under the Snooper’s Charter? The Snooper's Charter (or Draft Communications Data Bill) was only a bill, it was never implemented. The similar ‘Investigatory Powers Act’ was passed, but that applies to Communication Service Providers, not us. As a non-tracking search engine which respects privacy, we don't store any IP addresses or other information that would be useful to the UK Government if they were looking to identify individuals and if we were compelled in court to hand it over. This all being said, we encourage all Mojeek users to use a wide variety of anti-surveillance and pro-privacy tools when browsing the Web. Can you be a private option whilst being resident in a Five Eyes member country? The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As Mojeek does not store IP addresses, there would be very little useful information to hand over to the Five Eyes nations were they to compel us to give them data or to allow them to access to Mojeek’s backend.