Google has sent an email to its employees asking them to delete the sensitive document, in its bid of suppressing the memo thereby revealing the information about the of launching the censored search engine in China.
Authored by a Google engineer familiar with the project, the memo disclosed that the search system would require users in China to log in to perform searches. Codenamed Dragonfly, the search engine would track the location of users and share the data with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data, said the report on Friday, citing the memo.
This news about the Google’s plan of building the censored search engine in China was broke in the month of August and it was also reported that the search platform would blacklist the “sensitive queries” regarding the topics those include free speech, human rights, peaceful protest, democracy and the triggering internal protests among some of the employees of Google.
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After the report, the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai said that the company’s employees that the China plan was in its “early stages” and “exploratory”.
The group of employees those were busy organizing the internal protests over the censored search system also got access to the memo detailing the information about the project.
The Google leadership according to the report, were furious when they discovered that the memo was being passed among employees who were not supposed to know about about the Dragonfly project. The search engine from China would even link the user’s search history to their personal phone numbers according to the memo.
It also means that of at all the security agencies were to obtain the search records from Google, the individual people can be easily tracked and the users without finding the information were banned by the government and could be potentially at risk of interrogation or detention.
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