It is widely known that dissidents in China have had their blogs deleted and in at least one case a major search engine (Yahoo) have contributed to the arrest of a Chinese journalist. This, along with the Iranian regime’s poor track record when it comes to human rights, is why many Iranian protesters use the a search engine that guarantees search privacy.

Ahmed Hossain, CIO of Yauba, tells Pandia: “Our traffic from Iran has jumped 300% over the past several days, as many of them are using the Yauba Search Engine and the anonymity proxy filter to access blocked sites and get news from foreign sources.”

Search and privacy

After pressure from the EU commission, Google last September reduced the period the search engine stores personal data in its logs from 18 to 9 months.

The metasearch engine Ixquick used to store IP addresses for 48 hours. Now they don’t store IP addresses at all.

Hossain explains that Yauba goes even further: “We are the only search engine that offers 3 levels of privacy protection for our users:

• We use no cookies
• We do not store any of our users’ search (or any other personally identifiable) information
• We provide our users the ability to visit third party sites with the same level of privacy protection”

More information about Yauba.
Reporters Without Borders on repression in Iran.

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