Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
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Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately...
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Headquartered in the US so I wouldn’t guarantee it.
This was against Google specifically but I would imagine it would hold up against any US based search engine they felt someone was using.

Right, they must respond to a subpoena. But they don’t retain search records, do they?

In some cases they must retain the information. Like your ISP in the USA had to retain data for le purposes.

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Your statement contradicts their stated policy, and I’m not aware of any such requirement in the US.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

IP retention is addressed in the first paragraph under “privacy policy”, and it stated they don’t save or log it.

How do you know? You don’t control their servers

Your point is not unique: all websites require your trust.

So if that’s your threat model you can’t use any search engine.

But if we want to put that aside and discuss their stated policy, then the link I provided addressed the parent statement that

In some cases they must retain the information. Like your ISP in the USA had to retain data for le purposes.

Which directly refutes that there is any such requirement.

You shouldn’t trust any search engine. That’s my point.

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