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Google Engineers Quit After Secretive China Project Links Phone Number To Searches
| This means individual people’s searches could be easily tracked – and any user seeking out information banned by the government could potentially be at risk of interrogation or detention if security agencies were to obtain the search records from Google.
The search platform also appeared to have been tailored to replace weather and air pollution data with information provided directly by an unnamed source in Beijing.
| The Chinese government has a record of manipulating details about pollution in the country’s cities. One Google source said the company had built a system, integrated as part of Dragonfly, that was “essentially hardcoded to force their [Chinese-provided] data.” -The Intercept
"This is very problematic from a privacy point of view, because it would allow far more detailed tracking and profiling of people’s behavior," says Human Rights Watch senior internet research Cynthia Wong.
| "Linking searches to a phone number would make it much harder for people to avoid the kind of overreaching government surveillance that is pervasive in China."
Human rights groups have slammed Dragonfly, insisting that it could result in Google "directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations."
Google engineers agree - and they've been resigning over the ethical concerns with the project.
| Approximately 1,400 Google employees have signed a letter circulating within the company, asking executives to explain exactly what the hell is going on.
"As a company and as individuals we have a responsibility to use this power to better the world, not to support social control, violence, and oppression," the letter reads.
| "What is clear is that Ethical Principles on paper are not enough to ensure ethical decision making. We need transparency, oversight, and accountability mechanisms sufficient to allow informed ethical choice and deliberation across the company."
https://archive.fo/fp97X
| Google has been getting increasingly evil in the past years, they won't learn no matter how. this is some cyberpunk shit
degoogling (getting rid of google from your life) is easy but all we need is a youtube alternative that isn't just some place where alt-right posts their edgy shit
| Nico nico douga.
| China's political model will export itself in others countries, and not only under-developped ones.
| China is already setting up vassal states in Africa, expect them to be subservient in all ways to their new leaders.
| Use Niconico
| Does it come as a surprise that google searches through the mobile phones are paired with the phone number, or the imei number of the device they originated from? Seriously, are there surprised people here by this?
| For fucks sake this is why I hate my heritage country. Stupid assholes. Mind your own business and do something about your crumbling infrastructure but noooo
| >>407201
Maybe their infrastructure will crumble, leaving not much of anything left to build the very phones they use to spy on people, lmao.
| mainland china is a lawless wasteland filled with laws
| I'm part of this country, the one with 7,107 islands, and the place is starting to teem w Chinese Nationals.
I don't hate you guys generally but c'mon not my Internet too I already bought your phones.
| Don't be evil, right google? Fucking kikes
| google is evil.
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| The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, revolves around the Android platform and is designed to remove content deemed by government officials to be sensitive or offensive - such as information about protests, free speech, political dissidents, democracy and human rights violations.
Sources familiar with the project said that prototypes of the search engine linked the search app on a user’s Android smartphone with their phone number.