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Google, Apple and other manufacturers pass on data to investigating authorities without hesitation. Therefore, use alternative search engines such as duckduckgo.com or stract.com

More information

You can find more privacy-friendly search engines on the Digitalcourage website.

Particularly important for the following target groups:

  • Advertising and marketing

Other categories

  • Behavior-based risks
  • Dangers on the Internet

Sources and further links

  1. Alternative search engines, digitalcourage.de, (de), 2024-11-28
  2. Police are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do it, businessinsider.com, (en), 2023-03-05
  3. Police receive a list of all users who have googled a keyword, netzpolitik.org, (de), 2020-10-13
  4. Inverse search: Google provides police with user data based on search terms, heise.de, (de), 2020-10-09
  5. duckduckgo.com, duckduckgo.com, (en)
  6. stract.com, stract.com, (en)
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