Proposal to change default search engine

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Alexander Hanff
<a.hanff at think-privacy.com> wrote:
> After launching NoDPI.org and successfully chasing Phorm out of the UK and
> EU, I took up a position at Privacy International, where I headed up their
> Digital Privacy portfolio for 3 years.

I'll just leave this here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/new-leaks-british-intels-direct-from-fiber-taps-worse-than-the-us/

> Startpage is based in the Netherlands and are a Dutch company, which means
> they are not vulnerable to US surveillance laws.  Furthermore, they are
> certified by Europrise, the leading privacy auditing body in the EU, funded
> by the European Commission.  I know the team personally and have visited
> their office on a number of occasions, they have always taken my advice to
> heart and implemented every change I have suggested to them.  I have
> absolutely every confidence that they are a privacy enhancing technology and
> a benefit to the world & I would stake my reputation on that in a heartbeat.

Sure they aren't.  But they are vulnerable to Dutch orders, and
Article 125K of the Criminal code is mighty interesting.

I also managed to find:
  http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/dutch_security_service_has_rec.php
  http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/no_prism_for_dutch_security_bo.php