The post DuckDuckGo gets $10M from Omers for global privacy push appeared first on BardTech . Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo , which offers an alternative to surveillance engines like Google, has quietly picked up $10M in fresh funding from Canadian pension fund Omers’ VC arm. The Globe and Mail reported the news earlier this month. It’s only the second funding round for the ten year old company — which last picked up $3M in VC all the way back in 2011, according to Crunchbase . In a blog post announcing the investment, Omers Ventures argues that privacy and security concerns have “risen to the forefront of public consciousness” over the past five years — noting how governments are responding to public demand and data breaches and “starting to take real action”, citing the European Union’s updated privacy framework, GDPR , as one example. With that conviction in mind, the fund actively pursued an investment in DDG, which has been profitable (via n...