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Security guards monitor the Google logo outside of Google's China headquarters in Beijing Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (Source: AP Photo / Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Weeks after the controversy over Google's Chinese search engine leak plans, The Intercept said the system would also put some topics on a "blacklist" of censorship and would link users' search history to their mobile phone numbers.
The site reported Friday that Google's developing Android search engine for China, dubbed Dragonfly, would remove content considered sensitive by the Chinese government from users' search results.
According to The Intercept, Google has compiled a list of terms for Dragonfly's "blacklist censorship "which includes phrases such as" human rights "," student protest "and" Nobel Prize "in Mandarin.
Based on the documents reviewed by The Intercept, the site also indicated that Dragonfly would make it easier for government authorities to access users' search history, including linking searches to mobile phone numbers. users.
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According to sources who spoke at the site, the research platform "also appeared to have been designed to replace weather and air pollution data with information provided directly by an anonymous source in Beijing."
A Google spokesperson commented by e-mail: "We have been investing for many years to help Chinese users, from the development of Android, to mobile applications such as Google Translate and Files Go, as well as our development tools. . But our research work has been exploratory and we are not about to launch a research product in China. "
As Gizmodo Explained, Google has already left the Chinese market in 2010 during a wave of censorship and cybersecurity problems, but has since returned to the country's huge digital market and seems to be trying to catch up.
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To participate in the Chinese technology economy, the Internet giant will have to comply with the wishes of the Chinese authorities, which, according to human rights activists, have prioritized censorship and repeated attacks. against journalists and activists themselves.
While Dragonfly records the phone numbers of mobile search users, program critics say that Chinese authorities can easily track and target individual users to search for banned country terms.
Google's recent work on the Chinese search engine would also have pushed another employee of the company to take off.
Jack Poulson, chief engineer of the research and industrial intelligence department, told Intercept that after weeks of conversations with his chiefs at Google, he had left the company on Aug. 31. He stated that it was his "ethical responsibility" to protest our public human rights commitments in the business.
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[Updated at 10:32 am EDT to include statement from Google spokesperson]">
Security guards monitor the Google logo outside of Google's China headquarters in Beijing Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (Source: AP Photo / Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Weeks after the controversy over Google's Chinese search engine leak plans, The Intercept said the system would also put some topics on a "blacklist" of censorship and would link users' search history to their mobile phone numbers.
The site reported Friday that Google's developing Android search engine for China, dubbed Dragonfly, would remove content considered sensitive by the Chinese government from users' search results.
According to The Intercept, Google has compiled a list of terms for Dragonfly's "blacklist censorship "which includes phrases such as" human rights "," student protest "and" Nobel Prize "in Mandarin.
Based on the documents reviewed by The Intercept, the site also indicated that Dragonfly would make it easier for government authorities to access users' search history, including linking searches to mobile phone numbers. users.
See also: Facebook Boots More "wicked" more secrets leaving others in full view
According to sources who spoke at the site, the research platform "also appeared to have been designed to replace weather and air pollution data with information provided directly by an anonymous source in Beijing."
A Google spokesperson commented by e-mail: "We have been investing for many years to help Chinese users, from the development of Android, to mobile applications such as Google Translate and Files Go, as well as our development tools. . But our research work has been exploratory and we are not about to launch a research product in China. "
As Gizmodo Explained, Google has already left the Chinese market in 2010 during a wave of censorship and cybersecurity problems, but has since returned to the country's huge digital market and seems to be trying to catch up.
See also: Uber Kick Decency at the limit with NYC Media Flood
To participate in the Chinese technology economy, the Internet giant will have to comply with the wishes of the Chinese authorities, which, according to human rights activists, have prioritized censorship and repeated attacks. against journalists and activists themselves.
While Dragonfly records the phone numbers of mobile search users, program critics say that Chinese authorities can easily track and target individual users to search for banned country terms.
Google's recent work on the Chinese search engine would also have pushed another employee of the company to take off.
Jack Poulson, chief engineer of the research and industrial intelligence department, told Intercept that after weeks of conversations with his chiefs at Google, he had left the company on Aug. 31. He said that our public commitment to human rights "in the company.
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[Updated at 10:32 am EDT to include statement from Google spokesperson]