Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
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 a privacy technology company. We believe that privacy is a human right and that getting privacy online should be simple and accessible to everyone. With one download of the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for mobile or the Privacy Essentials browser extension for desktop, we offer seamless protection to our users. This includes our tracker blocking technology and our private search engine that is the fourth largest in the European Union and serves over two billion queries a month.
Main EU files targeted
We focus on policy initiatives related to competition and privacy, including:
- Implementation of the Commission's Android Decision (case number 40099);
- Digital Markets Act (DMA).Address
Head Office
20 Paoli Pike
Paoli - Pennsylvania 19301
UNITED STATESEU Office
20 Paoli Pike
Paoli - Pennsylvania 19301
UNITED STATESWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022
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
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
Every year, we donate a share of our profits to organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. 2021 marks DuckDuckGo's eleventh year of donations. We're proud to donate to a diverse selection of organizations across the globe that strive for better privacy, digital rights, greater competition in online markets, and access to information free from algorithmic bias.
The full list of recipients is available online: https://spreadprivacy.com/2021-duckduckgo-donations/ -
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: 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)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 23 Apr 2021 Location Online Subject DMA Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet member)
- Werner Stengg (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 - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
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)
- Meetings