Posted on 09/21/2018 5:22:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Intercept is reporting that Google tried -- and apparently, failed -- to suppress a memo that may have revealed how that search engine could have allowed the Chinese government to track those citizens who used it.
According to the report, the so-called Dragonfly search engine would require Chinese citizens to log in to perform searches, track their physical location, and then share all of its data with a Chinese partner company that could presumably share it with the Chinese government. The company would reportedly have "unilateral access" to the data. That might also presumably include Chinese citizens' phone numbers, as described in an earlier Intercept report.
Plus, that Chinese company would reportedly be able to independently add new words to the blacklist of searches to be censored, according to today's report.
Here's how Google is reportedly trying to suppress the memo: Google human resources personnel emailed employees who were believed to have accessed or saved copies of the memo and ordered them to immediately delete it from their computers. Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained "pixel trackers" that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.
You may notice a lot of "may" and "could" and "report" in the paragraphs above, since Google still hasn't confirmed that such a project even existed, much less how it might work -- all Google has publicly said is that it's "not close to launching a search product in China," and it's worth noting that reports suggest the search engine is currently a prototype.
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More brainstorming, a**wipes?
As crazy as America is with the invasion of the communist left; it still beats China any day.
We should prohibit any US=based company from cooperating with the Chinese regime. Make the penalties stiff. See who they choose. Act accordingly.
Google execs should be arrested for aiding foreign governments in thus manner.
Like they track us here????
Sometimes I think we’re less free than China, just with more STUFF.
Btt
In less-reported news, Google quietly deletes “Don’t be evil” from their corporate mission statement.
Google employees = tyranny is as tyranny does.
The dragonfly platform should merge nicely with the three hundred thousand cameras throughout china. Soon to add another six hundred thousand.
The Nazi pigs at Google already have blood on their hands from turning in members of Falun Gong to the ChiComm butchers.
It’s way past time to arrest the Google monsters for crimes against humanity, including being accessories to torture and murder.
Don’t go to the Goolag
Seriously, do you not think that Google is already doing something similar here in the U.S.?
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