Google moving search records out of China

Well, looks like the once rosy relationship between China and Google has begun to sour even further. Love to say this bothered me, but if I did that I would be full of it!

In an effort to protect users of its Google (Profile, Products, Articles).cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the U.S., a company executive said this week.

Google.cn is a version of its search engine that is hosted in China and adheres to Chinese censorship laws. It was launched in January.

The company has decided to store search records from the site outside of the country in order to prevent China’s government from being able to access the data without Google’s consent, said Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, speaking Monday at a panel discussion at Santa Clara University. “We didn’t want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government,” he said. Source: InfoWorld

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