Donating for Privacy

Every year since 2011, DuckDuckGo has been donating to organizations that contribute to our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

Over $1,900,000 in DuckDuckGo privacy donations

2019

$600,000
for
Privacy Advocacy

For our ninth year making donations, we've selected organizations who are championing the voice of the consumer and in the many regulatory discussions about online privacy happening worldwide.

$200,000 Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
$110,000 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
$85,000 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$30,000 Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
$25,000 CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS)
$25,000 Tor Project

$25,000 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
$25,000 TechFreedom
$25,000 Demand Progress Education Fund
$25,000 European Center for Digital Rights (noyb)
$25,000 Cracked Labs

2018

$500,000
for
Privacy Challenge

For our eighth year of donations, we organized and donated to a privacy crowdfunding campaign that benefited these 21 organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

$76,571 Demand Progress
$68,012 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$48,022 Center for Democracy & Technology
$44,664 Fight for the Future
$38,081 Tails
$33,810 New Media Rights
$32,904 Restore the Fourth
$22,816 Tor Project
$18,895 Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
$14,325 The Calyx Institute
$14,236 Let’s Encrypt

$11,561 Riseup Labs
$11,533 Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)
$11,089 Internet Freedom Festival
$10,903 Access Now
$10,401 Emerald Onion
$9,079 Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
$6,634 Freenet Project
$6,929 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
$5,273 Bits of Freedom
$4,265 World Privacy Forum

2017

$400,000
for
Privacy Education

In our seventh year of privacy donations, we concentrated on efforts to educate people about privacy.

$200,000 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$75,000 World Privacy Forum
$29,000 Open Whisper Systems
$25,000 Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
$25,000 Tor Project
$25,000 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
$5,000 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
$5,000 Access Now

$2,500 The Calyx Institute
$2,500 Center for Democracy & Technology
$1,000 Restore the Fourth
$1,000 Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
$1,000 Patient Privacy Rights
$1,000 Online Trust Alliance (OTA)
$1,000 Tech Freedom
$1,000 Demand Progress

2016

$225,000
for
Increasing Trust

Our sixth year of privacy donations were distributed among causes that are increasing the ability to trust the internet.

$25,000 SecureDrop
$25,000 Freenet
$25,000 OpenBSD Foundation
$25,000 CrypTech
$25,000 Tor Project

$25,000 Fight for the Future
$25,000 VeraCrypt
$25,000 LEAP
$25,000 GPGTools

2015

$125,000
for
Privacy Tools

For our fifth year of privacy donations we aimed to help improve privacy tools used by journalists.

$25,000 SecureDrop
$25,000 Privacy Badger
$25,000 GPGTools

$25,000 Tails
$25,000 Girl Develop It

2014

$40,000
for
Secure Communications

In our fourth year of privacy donations, we focused on organizations dedicated to improving secure communications.

$10,000 SecureDrop
$10,000 NoiseTor
$5,000 Lavabit

$5,000 Riseup
$5,000 Mailpile
$5,000 I2P

2013

$20,000
for
Fix Tracking

Our third year of privacy donations went towards assisting projects developing tools for people to escape pervasive tracking online.

$2,000 NoScript
$2,000 Cryptocat
$2,000 Javascript Blocker

2012

$10,000+
for
Open Data

For our second year of privacy donations we chose projects that were helping people freely access information.

2011

$1,909
for
Privacy Open Source

In our first year of privacy donations, we donated mainly to privacy open source projects that we used to build DuckDuckGo.

$482 nginx
$475 FreeBSD
$238 Tor Project

$238 Clamwin
$238 Tahoe-LAFS
$238 OpenSSH

DuckDuckGo is an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. With our roots as the search engine that doesn’t track you, we’ve expanded what we do to protect you no matter where the Internet takes you.

Donating for Privacy

2019

$600,000
for
Privacy Advocacy

2018

$500,000
for
Privacy Challenge

2017

$400,000
for
Privacy Education

2016

$225,000
for
Increasing Trust

2015

$125,000
for
Privacy Tools

2014

$40,000
for
Secure Communications

2013

$20,000
for
Fix Tracking

2012

$10,000+
for
Open Data

2011

$1,909
for
Privacy Open Source

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Donating for Privacy

2019

$600,000 for Privacy Advocacy

2018

$500,000 for Privacy Challenge

2017

$400,000 for Privacy Education

2016

$225,000 for Increasing Trust

2015

$125,000 for Privacy Tools

2014

$40,000 for Secure Communications

2013

$20,000 for Fix Tracking

2012

$10,000+ for Open Data

2011

$1,909 for Privacy Open Source

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$600,000
for
Privacy Advocacy

$500,000
for
Privacy Challenge

$400,000
for
Privacy Education

$225,000
for
Increasing Trust

$125,000
for
Privacy Tools

$40,000
for
Secure Communications

$20,000
for
Fix Tracking

$10,000+
for
Open Data

$1,909
for
Privacy Open Source