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The Intercept has learned that Google’s leadership is trying to silence employees who are protesting “Dragonfly,” the company’s heavily monitored and censored search engine for China. Higher-ups were reportedly “furious” when one engineer circulated an internal memo disclosing the system would track the locations of users and share their searches with third parties. Employees have been asked to delete the memo from their computers immediately.
People’s search histories, location information, and other private data would be sent out of China to a database in Taiwan, the memo states. But the data would also be provided to employees of a Chinese company who would be granted “unilateral access” to the system. To launch the censored search engine, Google set up a “joint venture” partnership with an unnamed Chinese company.
People’s search histories, location information, and other private data would be sent out of China to a database in Taiwan, the memo states. But the data would also be provided to employees of a Chinese company who would be granted “unilateral access” to the system. To launch the censored search engine, Google set up a “joint venture” partnership with an unnamed Chinese company.
