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Excuse me, I live in England and I use DuckDuckGo - Surveillance and tracking is just as prevalent over here as it is in the US, ever heard of GCHQ?
by jjar 11y ago
Excuse me, I live in England and I use DuckDuckGo - Surveillance and tracking is just as prevalent over here as it is in the US, ever heard of GCHQ?
- themartorana 11y agoLikely even more so. The U.S. is at least making symbolic (if not substantial) changes to laws like letting provisions of the PATRIOT ACT expire, while the UK is secretly making domestic spying legal through secret laws. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/18/gchq-hacking-legal-secret-change-in-law http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/18/gchq-hacking-...
- vixsomnis 11y agoIt's not just the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
- chippy 11y agoI also am British and use DDG, but the comment was about the vast majority of web users around the world, who still type google into google to get to google.com