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Google Moving PRC Records Out of China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the covering-their-bases dept.

Lam1969 writes "Google says it is moving search records out of China and back to the U.S. to prevent the Chinese government from accessing them, reports Computerworld. Additionally, the company will let Chinese users know when search results are being censored. According to Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, 'Some of the people want to query about democracy, but most of them just want to know about their pop stars.'"

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  1. Wait a minute by pHatidic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they should be moving the US records into China, given all the crap with the DOJ recently. That would actually be a pretty good swap, moving the US records into China and the Chinese records into the US.

    1. Re:Wait a minute by pomo+monster · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, and the fact that the present administration is holding anyone indefinitely without trial--U.S. citizens or no--is totally against the principles for which we're supposedly fighting.

    2. Re:Wait a minute by donutello · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, China would never do something like that.

      What kind of fucking bubble world do some of you idiots live in? Yes, our rights are being eroded away and the US government is doing many bad things and we need to fight that but don't be so stupid as to let that diminish the much worse atrocities of certain other governments.

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    3. Re:Wait a minute by smooth+wombat · · Score: 3, Informative
      Lindh was captured fighting with a foreign military, against US forces.

      False. He never fought against US forces. In fact, when given the option of fighting the US forces or the Northern Alliance forces, Lindh specifically said he did not want to fight US forces.

      Further, he was captured by the Northern Alliance forces and put in an Afghanistan jail. He was only found after the riot and attempted takeover of the prison in Mazaor-e Sharif by the prisoners. For reference:

      CNN
      Wiki

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  2. Oh! by Chordonblue · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Some of the people want to query about democracy, but most of them just want to know about their pop stars.'

    Sooo... They're like your average American then? :)

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  3. The reach of national laws by Aspirator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is interesting that an American company are moving data out of China,
    in order to make it inaccessible to Chinese law.

    At the same time American (and some other countires) law is assuming more
    global coverage.

  4. why US? by joe+155 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how can they know that the records won't be forced to be released in the US... I think it'd be best to go somewhere like switzerland, then it'd be safe, no one ever asks questions there

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  5. And what about Yahoo? by cyranose · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure this google news is just a reannouncement, since privacy protection seemed to be the intent from the beginning--but they certainly did a horrible job on the PR...

    On the other hand, from what I hear, Yahoo! is still busy cooperating with China and landing dissidents in jail by releasing their "private" information. I must have missed the constant stream of /. front page stories about Yahoo! being evil, but the google ones have been just great!

  6. Because that could *never* happen here... by pla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    back to the U.S. to prevent the Chinese government from accessing them

    Yeah, great idea - Because, y'know, the "land of the free" would never try to force Google to turn over its search records. And certainly never for something as frivolous as trying to further the religious agenda of right-wing crackpots... Oh, I mean "democracy". Slip of the tongue there, please ignore it.


    So will we hear tomorrow that they've moved all search records involving porn to Japan, to protect them from the US government?