Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Duck Duck Go, Inc.
EU Transparency Register
177326839581-89 First registered on 05 Oct 2020
Goals / Remit
DuckDuckGo is an Internet privacy company that empowers users to seamlessly take control of their personal information online, without any trade-offs. With our roots as the search engine that doesn’t track users, we’ve expanded what we do to protect people no matter where the Internet takes them. This includes a private mobile browser and an extension for the most popular browsers that blocks hidden trackers and forces sites to use an encrypted connection when available.
Main EU files targeted
We focus on policy initiatives related to privacy and competition:
- Implementation of the Commission's Android Decision (case number 40099);
- Digital Services Act (DSA) or Digital Markets Act (DMA), in particular the ex-ante regulation of online gatekeepers;
- New Competition Tool;
- Privacy provisions of the DSA and ePrivacy Regulation.Address
Head Office
20 Paoli Pike
Paoli - Pennsylvania 19301
UNITED STATES -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 Oct 2020
Name Start date End Date Mr Aurelien Mähl 01 Apr 2023 29 Mar 2024 Mr Aurelien Mähl 18 Feb 2022 18 Feb 2023 Mr Aurelien Mähl 18 Nov 2020 01 Nov 2021 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
Other financial info
Every year, we donate a share of our profit to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. Our 2020 recipients are here: https://spreadprivacy.com/2020-duckduckgo-donations/
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
We communicate our policy positions, market research, corporate news and privacy tips on our blog, accessible at https://spreadprivacy.com .
We also interact with lawmakers and EU institutions officials in policy meetings. We might share with them additional, business-sensitive documents.
We've been doing a series of blogs on how a genuine search preference menu would work in the EU: https://spreadprivacy.com/tag/preference
People can also subscribe to our DuckDuckGo Privacy Newsletter, helping them stay protected and informed online: https://duckduckgo.com/newsletterOther activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
5 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 23 Apr 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Search engine’s responsibility under the DSA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Apr 2021 Location Online Subject DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
- Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Dec 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable with platforms on DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 27 Nov 2020 Location Brussels Subject Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Nov 2020 Location Videoconference Subject DSA and DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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