Google Moving Search Records Out of China
I guess Google didn’t like the taste left in their mouthes after the US government requested search data from them recently. Google has announced that they will be moving their search records from the Chinese Google site (Google.cn) to prevent China’s government from accessing the data without Google’s consent. Google is working to abide by China’s laws and operate inside the Chinese borders. Clearly they understand that means that whatever China says, goes.
In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the United States, a company executive said this week. Google.cn is a version of the company’s search engine that is hosted in China and adheres to Chinese censorship laws. It was launched in January. The Mountain View, California, company has decided to store search records from the site outside that country, however, in order to prevent China’s government from accessing the data without Google’s consent, said Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, speaking at a panel discussion at Santa Clara University earlier this week. “We didn’t want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government,” he said.
Google, China, Google.cn, Censorship, Privacy, Search+Engine
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