The power of privacy

摘要

AROUND 19 IN every 20 European internet searches are carried out on Google. Not those done by Margrethe Vestager. The European Union's competition chief says she mostly looks stuff up on Qwant, which prides itself on not tracking users in the manner its larger rival does. Forget also Google Maps, or Gmail, or any other product from the Alphabet stable: "I have better alternatives that provide me with more privacy," the Danish politician recently told a crowd at sxsw, an annual festival of tech, music and thought in Austin, Texas.