Ryan Gallagher
Bloomberg
United Kingdom
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Musk’s Lawyer Calms Twitter Staff Fearing Jail Risk for FTC Lapses
After losing thousands of employees and top compliance officials at Twitter Inc., Elon Musk’s deputies are racing to contain heightened concerns that staff will be held liable for security lapses. → Read More
Blacklisted Chinese Equipment Used at UK’s Porton Down Labs
The UK’s Health Security Agency has been using video surveillance technology from under-fire Chinese firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. at laboratories that conduct research into vaccines and deadly diseases, according to people familiar with the matter. → Read More
Hackers Release Data Trove From Belarus in Bid to Overthrow Lukashenko Regime
Pilfered data includes lists of alleged police informants and information on government spies. → Read More
Surveillance Technology Will Only Get More Intense After Covid
Some fear that governments could exploit the pandemic to usher in broad invasive powers long after the crisis has passed. → Read More
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China. → Read More
China Bans The Intercept and Other News Sites in “Censorship Black Friday”
The crackdown also impacts The Guardian, Washington Post, NBC News, and others, and may be related to the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. → Read More
Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search
A group of employees said Google made hundreds of changes to smartphone apps for the controversial project, thought to be defunct. → Read More
New Site Exposes How Apple Censors Apps in China
The site shows which apps —from human rights groups, the New York Times, and virtual private networks — have been removed from Apple's app store in China. → Read More
Google Faces Renewed Protests and Criticism Over China Search Project
Investors, human rights advocates, and staffers continue to criticize Google for a project to bring censored search back to China. → Read More
Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
Google reassigned several groups of engineers away from a planned censored search engine after a rift over its use of real internet queries in China for testing. → Read More
Google CEO Hammered by Members of Congress on China Censorship Plan
Sundar Pichai told the House Judiciary Committee that Google has “no plans to launch a search service in China.” → Read More
Rights Groups Up Pressure on Google Over China Censorship Ahead of Congressional Hearing
Google will risk being "complicit in human rights violations" if it brings censored search back to China, said a coalition of more than 60 groups from around the world. → Read More
Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams From Secret China Project
Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and theatened employees would be fired if they spoke out. → Read More
Hundreds of Google Employees Tell Bosses To Cancel Censored Search Amid Worldwide Protests
Joining a day of protest led by Amnesty International, the workers have gone public with a letter rebuking their bosses. → Read More
Google CEO Tells Senators That Censored Chinese Search Engine Could Provide “Broad Benefits”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to answer a list of questions from a bipartisan group of six senators. → Read More
Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China
Publicly, Google executive Ben Gomes has called the censored search engine “an exploration.” Privately, he wanted it completed “as soon as possible.” → Read More
Former Google Scientist Tells Senate to Act Over Company’s “Unethical and Unaccountable” China Censorship Plan
Google staff “actively subverted” an internal review of a search engine for China that would blacklist terms like “human rights,” ex-Google employee said. → Read More
Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data. → Read More
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers
Google’s plan for a censored search engine in China also blacklists terms like “Nobel Prize” and “human rights.” → Read More
Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
The specialist said that the plan to resume the censored search engine project in China could endanger dissidents and encourage online repression elsewhere. → Read More