Google's congressional hearing highlights
GOOGLE'S SUNDAR PICHAI LIES TO CONGRESS ABOUT TRACKING LOCATION OF USERS
Falsely claims users can opt out
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/sundar-pichai-lies-to-congress-about-google-tracking-location-of-users/;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
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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Human Rights Groups Fire
Broadside at Google
Over 60 groups accuse Google of facilitating repressive state censorship
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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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Google CEO Giggles When Confronted About Aiding Chinese Genocide
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.
Alex Jones & Millie Weaver of Infowars
Confront Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Kaitlin Bennett & Millie Weaver Crash Google Hearing
Googles CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
regarding censorship. Millie Weaver and Kaitlin Bennett discuss the
extent of Googles censorship and privacy violations against Americans
and the Chinese DragonFly Project.
