Google: Uh, not your friend

[OldJourno]

From The Intercept:




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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
Ryan Gallagher, Lee Fang

September 21 2018, 10:18 a.m.
Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept
Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept has learned.
The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location — and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data.
The memo was shared earlier this month among a group of Google employees who have been organizing internal protests over the censored search system, which has been designed to remove content that China’s authoritarian Communist Party regime views as sensitive, such as information about democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21...plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/

What this means is that Google is basically selling out users to what is still a totalitarian regime, one that won't hesitate to silence critics.
But it's all OK because Google is run by a bunch of wealthy - and I mean really, really wealthy - liberals.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Well, certainly not if you're living in Mainland China...

 

[SpeareChucker]

Wealthy White Liberal Monopolists






[Beloved] Robber Barons of the Electronic Age

 

[Aglaopheme]

He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday.

 

[Rightguide]

Well, certainly not if you're living in Mainland China...

Google is gleefully assisting the Communist Chinese in introducing their people to new high tech methods of oppression.

 

[SpeareChucker]

You've heard of their social ranking, the exact name escapes me, but social media is used to create a citizenship score which may determine if you can travel or get a good job. Whatta country!

 

[Rightguide]

You've heard of their social ranking, the exact name escapes me, but social media is used to create a citizenship score which may determine if you can travel or get a good job. Whatta country!

On the order of 18th and 19th Century Europe where some countries required their citizens to carry "conduct books" where their employment performance and general citizenship would be graded. The old is new again.

 

[SpeareChucker]

It's digital, virtual and in the cloud now, in this case, the government cloud...

 

[Sean]

On the order of 18th and 19th Century Europe where some countries required their citizens to carry "conduct books" where their employment performance and general citizenship would be graded. The old is new again.

You've already been shown this is bullshit, Vettebigot.

 

[IG_88]

You've heard of their social ranking, the exact name escapes me, but social media is used to create a citizenship score which may determine if you can travel or get a good job. Whatta country!

That's a Black Mirror episode

 

[Rightguide]

You've already been shown this is bullshit, Vettebigot.

When and where? This is the first I've mentioned it, liar.

 

[Rightguide]

GOOGLE SUPPRESSES MEMO REVEALING PLANS TO CLOSELY TRACK SEARCH USERS IN CHINA

Ryan Gallagher, Lee Fang
September 21 2018, 10:18 a.m

GOOGLE BOSSES HAVE forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept has learned.

The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location — and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data.

The memo was shared earlier this month among a group of Google employees who have been organizing internal protests over the censored search system, which has been designed to remove content that China’s authoritarian Communist Party regime views as sensitive, such as information about democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.

According to three sources familiar with the incident, Google leadership discovered the memo and were furious that secret details about the China censorship were being passed between employees who were not supposed to have any knowledge about it. Subsequently, Google human resources personnel emailed employees who were believed to have accessed or saved copies of the memo and ordered them to immediately delete it from their computers. Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

The Dragonfly memo reveals that a prototype of the censored search engine was being developed as an app for both Android and iOS devices, and would force users to sign in so they could use the service. The memo confirms, as The Intercept first reported last week, that users’ searches would be associated with their personal phone number. The memo adds that Chinese users’ movements would also be stored, along with the IP address of their device and links they clicked on. It accuses developers working on the project of creating “spying tools” for the Chinese government to monitor its citizens.

More here:

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21...plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/

 

[Sean]

When and where? This is the first I've mentioned it, liar.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=89125110&postcount=21

O RLY?

 

[Rightguide]

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=89125110&postcount=21

O RLY?

I apologize, I completely forgot that post but have seen nothing to refute it, have you?

 

[IG_88]

I apologize, I completely forgot that post but have seen nothing to refute it, have you?

Only servants had to have them.

 

[Rightguide]

Only servants had to have them.

Servants or domestics are still citizens aren't they?



Conduct books. From 1832 and well into the present century all Danish domestics were required to possess conduct books in which comments on their conduct could be made by their employers. The fly*leaf usually bears valuable information about birth date and home parish.

http://usa.um.dk/en/about-denmark/tracing-your-danish-ancestors/

SERVANT'S CONDUCT BOOK
Every servant had to have a servant’s conduct book. Before use, it must be provided with a seal from either the police authority (in Copenhagen and in the market towns) or from the incumbent (in the rural areas). In 1742, the age limit was expanded further so it then included males from age 9-40, and in 1764 it was expanded even further to the age 4-40.

A child who wanted to serve after having completed school, had to obtain a servant’s conduct book if they didn’t already have one, and the book should be provided with their school certificate, when and where the child was born, if the child was christened and confirmed, and if that was the case, where and when.

Any householder who employed a servant, had to provide the servant’s conduct book with information on the when the servant worked for him, what the pay was, and what kind of work was provided. Anyone who moved to a market town or cure where they haven’t been before, to work as a servant, had to notify either the police authority or the incumbent so they could certify the servant’s conduct book.

The servant had to also notify the proper authorities when moving from the market town or cure. Not having or updating the information in the servant’s conduct book properly was punished with fines. Removing pages or purposefully making information in the book illegible is punished with either fines or prison

https://www.mydanishroots.info/index.php/bridge

 

[Sean]

Only servants had to have them.

They were a resume/ character reference used when applying for a new job. Vettebigot thinks they were some Orwellian government control device.

 

[IG_88]

Servants or domestics are still citizens aren't they?

I don't know, I didn't live in Denmark in the 19th century.
However you didn't say servants you said citizens, clearly implying all citizens. You also said countries. Plural.
Of course you also said you never said this before and that you're not Vette.

 

[oggbashan]

Servants or domestics are still citizens aren't they?

Yes, and no. Until later voting reforms only householders could vote - male householders.

As in many countries, the ability to vote was restricted to males with significant property assets.

It depends on how you define 'citizen'.

In some countries, e.g. France under Emperor Napoleon III, no one had any rights as a citizen.

Even in the USA, citizens were a restricted class - no Native Americans and no blacks.

UK seamen had to have a similar conduct book showing which on ships they had been crew members. A less than satisfactory conduct record meant they were unlikely to be employed by any shipping company.

 

[beew]

There has always been an alliance between big government and big business (or familial wealth) ever since big government emerged. Everyone has to pay protection and buy indulgences. Giving it a scary label doesn't change a single thing.

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We see now multi-national corporate structures imposing totalitarian policies on the body politic denied to the government through the democratic process.

Take for instance Japanese maquiladora companies like Sanyo, Hitachi, based in Tijuana engaged in cross border commerce with American companies. They require their American vendors to impose rules such as the Paris Accords or environmental standards like the Kyoto Protocol in their own industries and impose them independently on their American vendors despite the fact that those protocols are not the law in the United States. So in some way Americans are required to enforce foreign provisions they have as a nationa and as a people rejected..

Yup

 

[Oblimo]

But it's all OK because Google is run by a bunch of wealthy - and I mean really, really wealthy - liberals.

Google is owned by Alphabet, and Alphabet is a publically traded company. But you have to be liberal to hold shares. Everybody knows that.

 

[OldJourno]

Google is owned by Alphabet, and Alphabet is a publically traded company. But you have to be liberal to hold shares. Everybody knows that.

Google is run by a bunch of liberals. Most people, but clearly not everybody, know that owning shares and running a publicly traded company are two different things.

 

[Oblimo]

Google is run by a bunch of liberals. Most people, but clearly not everybody, know that owning shares and running a publicly traded company are two different things.

Uh-huh.

See you at the next shareholders’ meeting.

 

[bellisarius]

Re. Alphabet. Larry Page and Sergey Brin own 14% of the stock but control 56% of the stockholder voting power via 'supervoting' stock.

 

[jomar]

Do no evil