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Google asks employees to delete China search engine memo: Report
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IANS | 22 Sep, 2018
In its bid to suppress a memo revealing information about a plan to
launch a censored search engine in China, Google has sent an email to
employees asking them to delete the sensitive document, The Intercept
reported.
Authored by a Google engineer familiar with the
project, the memo disclosed that the search system would require users
in China to log in to perform searches.
Codenamed Dragonfly, the
search engine would track the location of users and share the data with
a Chinese partner who would have "unilateral access" to the data, said
the report on Friday, citing the memo.
The news about Google's
plan to build a censored search engine in China broke in August when The
Intercept reported that the search platform would blacklist "sensitive
queries" about topics including politics, free speech, democracy, human
rights and peaceful protest, triggering internal protests among some
Google employees.
Two weeks after that report, Google CEO Sundar
Pichai told the company's employees that the China plan was in its
"early stages" and "exploratory".
A group of Google employees
who were organising internal protests over the censored search system
got access to the memo detailing information about the project.
The
Google leadership, according to the The Intercept report, were furious
when they discovered that the memo was being passed among employees who
were not supposed to know about about the Dragonfly project.
The China search engine would link users' search history to their personal phone numbers, according to the memo.
This
means if security agencies were to obtain the search records from
Google, individual people could easily be tracked and users seeking out
information banned by the government could potentially be at risk of
interrogation or detention.
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