GOOGLE’S SUNDAR PICHAI LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT TRACKING LOCATION OF USERS, CREATING “DRAGONFLY” CENSORED SEARCH ENGINE
GOOGLE’S SUNDAR PICHAI LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT TRACKING LOCATION OF USERS
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai lied to Congress during testimony
today when he claimed that users could opt out of Google’s location
tracking services, a claim that the Associated Press previously found to
be false.
During his appearance in front of the the
House Judiciary committee for a hearing entitled: Transparency &
Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and
Filtering Practices, Pichai claimed that users had control of what
information Google stored about them.
“For Google services, you
have a choice of what information is collected, and we make it
transparent,” Pichai said, adding, “We give clear toggles, by category,
where they can decide whether that information is collected, stored, or –
more importantly – if they decide to stop using it.”
However, this is categorically untrue.
As
an investigation by the Associated Press back in August confirmed,
Google is tracking the location of its users even when the location
tracking option is turned off.
“An Associated Press investigation
found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store
your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it
will prevent Google from doing so,” the news agency reported.
Even
with the option to pause location history turned off, “Some Google apps
automatically store time-stamped location data without asking,” states
the report.
Google’s maps app stores a snapshot of your location
whenever you open it, daily weather updates on Android also record your
rough location and Google searches also pinpoint and store your precise
latitude and longitude down to a single square foot.
Before Pichai gave his testimony, he was confronted by Alex Jones and Roger Stone.
Anti-censorship
activists who accuse Google of working with the Chinese government to
out political dissidents have also made their presence felt at the
hearing.
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Over 60 groups accuse Google of facilitating repressive state censorship
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/human-rights-groups-fire-broadside-at-google/ republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
More than 60 human rights groups are now taking aim at Google
over its development of a censored search engine custom made for China.
The
groups say that Google has downplayed concerns over Dragonfly, the
search engine project designed to restrict information on human rights
and other subjects forbidden by the Chinese government.
According to The Intercept:
A prototype for the censored search engine was designed to
blacklist broad categories of information about human rights, democracy,
and peaceful protest. It would link Chinese users’ searches to their
personal cellphone number and store people’s search records inside the
data centers of a Chinese company in Beijing or Shanghai, which would be
accessible to China’s authoritarian Communist Party government.
If the plan proceeds, “there is a real risk that Google would
directly assist the Chinese government in arresting or imprisoning
people simply for expressing their views online, making the company
complicit in human rights violations,” the human rights groups wrote in a letter that will be sent to Google’s leadership on Tuesday.
The letter, written by groups from all over the world, doesn’t mince words:
New details leaked to the media strongly suggest that if
Google launches such a product it would facilitate repressive state
censorship, surveillance, and other violations affecting nearly a
billion people in China. Media reports state that Google has built a
prototype that censors “blacklisted” search terms including “human
rights,” “student protest” and “Nobel Prize,” including in journalistic
concerns, and links users’ search queries to personal phone numbers. The
app would also force users to sign in to use the service, track and
store location information and search histories, and provide “unilateral
access” to such data to an unnamed Chinese joint venture company, in
line with China’s data localization law – allowing the government
virtually unfettered access to this information.
China represents over 18% of the world population.
Also, keep in mind that numerous tech sites already demand phone numbers from users worldwide
in exchange for setting up accounts under the guise of “fighting spam,”
which is fueling concerns that, in the future, certain aspects of
Dragonfly won’t be limited to just China.
Alex Jones, who has also raised the alarm on Project Dragonfly,
is at Tuesday’s Google hearing in Washington, DC, to protest this mass
censorship.
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Alex Jones storms DC to confront Sundar Pichai on working with the ChiComs
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/google-ceo-giggles-when-confronted-about-aiding-chinese-genocide/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Alex Jones confronted Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday, calling
out the genocide in China his company’s helped orchestrate. Jones was
promptly threatened with arrest after confronting him.
regarding censorship. Millie Weaver and Kaitlin Bennett discuss the
extent of Googles censorship and privacy violations against Americans
and the Chinese DragonFly Project.