Liz Fong-Jones, a prominent former Google engineer known for speaking out for employee rights, wrote about her experience inside the search giant in an op-ed published on Wednesday. Fong-Jones writes that she has “grave concerns about how strategic decisions are made at Google today,” and that the company has “misused […]
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has been blocked in China. China heavily censors what information its citizens can access online, a system that has become known as the “great firewall.” In the past, China has cut off the country’s access to several prominent social media platforms and websites, including Google, Facebook, […]
Tibetan human rights groups protested outside Google offices around the world on Friday to demand the company scrap its China search engine plans. The groups fear a censored search engine would be used to further propaganda and oppress dissent. They are approaching Googlers directly and asking for support to kill […]
Edward Snowden has signed an open letter along with numerous human rights groups asking that Google kill its plan to launch a censored search engine in China. A group of 14 human rights groups sent a similar letter to Google in August about the so-called Project Dragonfly, but say they […]
The chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has said that anybody who does business in China “compromises some of their core values.” Google is working on plans to return to the Chinese market with a censored search engine after an eight-year hiatus. John Hennessy said Google needs to balance ethical […]
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is set to launch in the US for the first time with Google’s help. JD.com will open an online store in the US while Google handles payments and backroom order processing. Meanwhile, JD.com founder and CEO Liu Qiangdong is being investigated for rape in Minnesota. He […]
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai commented publicly for the first time on the company’s efforts to launch a censored search engine in China. Google has not been available in China for the past decade, and its possible return has caused an outcry among employees and US politicians. Pichai said Google’s […]
Chinese regional authorities recently laid out the kind of speech suppression that Google will likely have to facilitate for the country’s persecuted Muslim ethnic minority to launch its new product in China. The regional officials passed new laws on how to crack down on its Uighur ethnic minority, which includes […]
Twice in two days, Google has been shown to be deceptive about matters of public concern, first concerning a security vulnerability and then about the development of a censored search engined for China. The incidents are part of a pattern of behaviour by the company where it’s been repeatedly secretive, […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with Vice that Apple views data privacy as a human right, and encrypts data the same way in China as it does in every other country. He said that while Chinese laws mean Apple stores the data of citizens in China, the […]
The CEO of China’s second biggest search engine, Sogou, has said the company could help Google with its return to China. Google left China in 2010 but is working on returning with a censored search engine, codenamed “Project Dragonfly.” Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan told the MIT Technology Review that the […]
