Google built prototype of censored search engine for China that links users searches to their phones

[basquebromance]

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

Can you imagine if AT&T built a phone surveillance system for the Soviet Union in the 1970s?

 

[mamooth]

Why doesn't the Chinese government just use WeChat? They use it for plenty of other spying.

(WeChat is the SuperApp present on all Chinese smartphones, and WeChat is used for everything. Payments, reservations, maps, weather, everything)

 

[william the wie]

Do only evil is Google's unofficial motto, closely followed by don't get caught.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

Can you imagine if AT&T built a phone surveillance system for the Soviet Union in the 1970s?

but dont discuss breaking them up......

 

[Godboy]

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

Can you imagine if AT&T built a phone surveillance system for the Soviet Union in the 1970s?

If they have no problem fucking over Americans, I cant imagine fucking over Chinese people would be any harder for them.

 

[basquebromance]

"It is miraculous that Trump not only beat the Bush dynasty, 16 Republicans, the FBI, the media, voter fraud cheaters, the political class, Clinton dynasty, the Obamas, the elites in BOTH parties, but he also beat tech companies that used their platforms to try and beat him"

 

[basquebromance]

What if China sets up a naval base in Venezuela?

 

[basquebromance]

The search engine built by Google for the Chinese govt will allow far more detailed tracking & profiling of people’s behavior. “Linking searches to a phone number will make it much harder for people to avoid the kind of overreaching govt surveillance that is pervasive in China.”