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DuckDuckGo, Inc.

DuckDuckGo is a privacy technology company.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament) and Medienverband der freien Presse e.V.

5 Feb 2025 · AI Act

Meeting with Alexandra Geese (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jan 2025 · Competition and digital policies

Meeting with Kim Van Sparrentak (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Nov 2024 · Online safety

Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jul 2022 · Digital policy

Meeting with René Repasi (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

12 Jul 2022 · DMA, Antitrust Bills

Meeting with Rasmus Andresen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

7 Jul 2022 · Enforcement of the DSA

Meeting with Karen Melchior (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

4 Mar 2022 · AI Act

Meeting with Karen Melchior (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Mar 2022 · Digital Markets Act (DMA)

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton) and Seznam.cz, a.s. and

23 Apr 2021 · Search engine’s responsibility under the DSA

Meeting with Penelope Papandropoulos (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

23 Apr 2021 · DMA

Response to Digital Services Act package: ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online platforms acting as gatekeepers

31 Mar 2021

We welcome the Commission’s unprecedented ambition in opening up digital markets with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). We concur that it is critical to dilute the power of online gatekeepers, for the good of society, innovation, and competition. Google’s 93% search market share in Europe is the result of market foreclosure tactics, including hoarding default positions, either self-granted (Chrome, Android) or acquired (iOS). The DMA has the potential to address deep market imbalances like this one, but it shouldn’t jeopardize the proper implementation of antitrust decisions in the process – and it also shouldn’t repeat mistakes evident in past enforcement failures. Critically, the DMA would still allow Google to set its own search engine as the default across its platforms. In other words, the DMA wouldn't have prevented Google's illegal conduct found in the 2018 Android decision, and similarly wouldn't allow to fix its poor implementation. A forward-looking DMA should: - Ban gatekeepers from securing default status for their own core platform services; - Include the possibility for the regulator to impose preference menus that let consumers choose these default settings; - Add web browsers to the scope given their central role in solidifying gatekeeper control; and - Establish a well-resourced, participatory, and transparent enforcement framework. Please find attached DuckDuckGo's full position on the Digital Markets Act.
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Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

2 Dec 2020 · Roundtable with platforms on DSA and DMA

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

27 Nov 2020 · Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

6 Nov 2020 · DSA and DMA