In this episode we speak to Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo. We discuss why developers should care about privacy, what technologies and tools are available for building privacy-driven features, how DuckDuckGo manages performance when doing lookups against tracker lists, and the full stack of privacy tools, from search to the browser to email.

About Cate Huston

Cate Huston is Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and an advisor at Glowforge. She previously worked at Automattic, where she led the mobile, Jetpack, and Developer Experience teams. Huston admins the New-(ish) Manager Slack and writes regularly for Quartz.

Other things mentioned:

• DuckDuckGo
• Automattic
• Smart Encryption
• Tracker radar
• 1Password
• DuckDuckBot
• Visual Studio
• Glowforge
• MacBook Pro M1
• 1Password
• Spotify

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Recorded: 202-04-14.