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DuckDuckGo—DuckDuckGo donated over $3.65 million to privacy and digital rights organizations

· $3.6M

DuckDuckGo has donated over $3.65 million to organizations focused on privacy and digital rights including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Tor Project, and others. The company has been making annual donations since 2011 as part of its commitment to the privacy ecosystem.

Scoring Impact

TopicDirectionRelevanceContribution
Open Internet & Web Freedom+towardsecondary+0.50
User Privacy+towardprimary+1.00
Overall incident score =+0.429

Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.57)

Evidence (1 signal)

Confirms Donation Dec 1, 2022 documented

DuckDuckGo 2022 donations to privacy and digital rights organizations totaling over $3.65 million

DuckDuckGo reported cumulative donations of over $3.65 million to privacy and digital rights organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Tor Project, and others as part of its annual donation program since 2011.

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