Overview
Lobbying Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.85 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
DuckDuckGo, Inc.
EU Transparency Register
177326839581-89 First registered on 05 Oct 2020
Goals / Remit
DuckDuckGo is a privacy technology company. Our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. For over a decade, we've created new technology and worked with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all. With one download of the DuckDuckGo app or browser extension, we offer private search and seamless privacy protection to our users, including protection from most third-party trackers. Our search engine is the third largest in the European Union and serves approximately three billion queries a month.
Main EU files targeted
We focus on policy initiatives related to competition and privacy, including:
- Implementation and enforcement of the 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
3
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 25% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.85
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Aurélien Mähl 11 Sep 2024 10 Sep 2025 Mr Aurelien Mähl 01 Apr 2023 30 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
https://cerre.eu/membership/our-members/
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 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
300,000€ - 399,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount kekst cnc 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name kekst cnc Closed year Costs
300,000€ - 399,999€
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. 2023 marked DuckDuckGo's thirteenth 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://duckduckgo.com/donations -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
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.
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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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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 - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
- Filomena Chirico (Cabinet member)
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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)