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DuckDuckGo’s own policy and help pages state the company does not save or “log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk” and that it throws away IP-based location guesses after use . Independent...
DuckDuckGo’s public-facing claim is consistent across multiple help pages and analyses: , using only ephemeral technical data to deliver results and fight abuse, then discarding it . Independent repor...
Law enforcement typically does not arrest someone “because of an IP address” alone; instead, IP data is used as an investigative lead that, after legal process and corroboration, can produce warrants,...
DuckDuckGo’s published policy states it does not save IP addresses or unique identifiers alongside searches and “never log IP addresses or any unique identifiers to disk” . The company does perform ep...
Legal standards for compelling DuckDuckGo to disclose user IP logs in the U.S. depend heavily on whether DuckDuckGo actually retains IP addresses; DuckDuckGo’s published policy and multiple recent thi...
Federal courts and Congress have drawn a line between passively viewing streamed content and creating copies, producing uneven outcomes across circuits: many courts and commentators treat private stre...
Google records and links a great deal of search and web activity to accounts, devices, IPs and cookies when users are signed in or have tracking enabled, and it offers controls to view and delete that...
Courts weigh forensic evidence about whether a user merely streamed or actively possessed CSAM by applying a mix of traditional possession doctrines to digital artifacts—especially cached files and ex...
You asked “Why s this site full of shit” — reporting in the available results doesn’t mention that exact phrase or identify a single site you mean; however, recurring themes in the results explain why...