Google Built China A Prototype Search Engine That Allows Government To Spy On Citizens’ Search Queri

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Google Built China A Prototype Search Engine That Allows Government To Spy On Citizens’ Search Queries
 by Ashe Schow

September 15, 2018


Imagine if the U.S. government was able to freely access your search history and use it against you. That’s what may end up happening in China, thanks to a censored search engine built for the country by Google.

The Intercept reports that: “The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China’s ruling Communist Party regime, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.”

That’s right, terms like “human rights,” “Nobel prize,” and “student protest” were all added to a censorship list compiled by the massive tech company for the Chinese government.  ...

Naturally, Google doesn’t want to talk about what it’s doing.  ...  Full story at Daily Wire

 
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[mountaineer]

Google, China create search engine that tracks, censors searches and links them to users' phone numbers
by Katelyn Caralle
 | September 15, 2018 12:11 PM

A prototype of a censored search engine that links users' queries to their personal phone numbers is the result of a collaboration between Google and China.

This technology would make it easier for the Communist Party of China to monitor people and what they are searching, the Intercept reported Friday.

Dragonfly, the code name for the new search engine, was designed for Android devices.

The search engine would remove information that the Chinese government deems sensitive, like content regarding political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and protests, in something called a censorship blacklist.  ...  Washington Examiner

[Free Vulcan]

Google is in very scary Orwellian territory, and it thinks it's above everything: people, the law, governments...to the point where it now seems to think it is the authority.