Techlore Talks

Very happy to welcome Sean O'Brien to the channel for an interview to discuss privacy!

🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
Sean O'Brien Webpage: https://cyberclear.cc/
Yale Privacy Lab: https://privacylab.yale.edu/
PrivacySafe: https://privacysafe.tech/

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:32 Why Privacy?
0:05:50 History Behind Privacy Concerns
0:11:52 Technological Reliance & Privacy
0:14:14 Effects of COVID-19
0:18:12 COVID-19 Contact Tracing
0:25:30 Hasty Nation-Wide Responses
0:28:53 GrapheneOS, LineageOS, ROMs, & Phones
0:30:00 About Yale Privacy Lab
0:34:35 About PrivacySafe
0:39:11 Experience with Purism
0:43:11 Sean's Favorite Projects
0:44:58 Technological Autonomy
0:47:32 Alternative Mobile Phones
0:52:00 3 Things to Reclaim Privacy
1:11:33 Scariest Privacy Concerns
1:18:07 What OS do you use?
1:19:40 Final Words

🎥 VIDEO
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Welcome to an interview of Robert Beens, CEO of the privacy search engine Startpage. How does Startpage compare to DuckDuckGo and other search engines? What's their history? Is their recent collaboration a concern? How do they ensure your privacy? Are they a good service? Find out what their CEO has to say in this interview.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Is there anything you want to start out with?
01:28 How do your company goals line up with privacy?
05:04 How would you compare a privacy metasearch engine to your service?
09:05 Who runs Startpage, and what is the life for an employee like? How's your company setup?
10:30 What separates Startpage from other privacy search engines?
17:10 What makes Startpage more secure and private than other options?
27:48 What are your plans in the future that you can share publicly?
32:30 What do you have to say about the recent ownership change? (System1)
34:12 Does the ownership change effect how data is shared or collected?
35:10 Do you have plans on open sourcing anything in the future?
36:20 If Startpage pays for Google results, how does Startpage make its money?
38:00 Does Starpage plan (or have you already) paid to be a browser default?
40:15 Final Words
40:50 Final Question: Do you have an onion site, and do you allow Tor users to access Startpage?
42:10 Actual Final Words

🎥 VIDEO
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