Google has canceled Dragonfly, its browser with censorship for China, according to The Intercept
2018 has been a better year for Google than for Facebook, mediately speaking. However, the giant Mountain View has faced two major controversies. On the one hand there was Project Maven, which was a collaboration with the Pentagon with military drones, and which is supposedly canceled.
On the other hand was Dragonfly, the project with which, after leaving China in 2010, Google wanted to return with a search engine that worked with the censorship imposed by the iron regime of Xi Jinping. As we have told, this has generated a division among employees and criticism of organizations that were responsible for human rights, such as Amnesty International.
According to The Intercept, the media that uncovered everything, critics of the project may be in luck, because Google has effectively ended Dragonfly, after there were strong internal clashes.
To build its search engine, and despite its experience in the field, Google has used data obtained through the website 265.com, which it acquired in 2008 and serves as a home page for millions of users who use it as a place to visit. to inquire about markets, horoscopes, cheap flights.
Knowing the data collection power of the web, Google stored user searches, before sending it to the competitor search engine, Baidu. According to two engineers told The Intercept, they obtained large amounts of information about user queries, and at least one of them accessed an API to collect data from web searches. In this way, DragonFly would take shape and adapt better to the most common searches in Mandarin. That is to say, that among other things, it would better integrate better what websites to block.
The process with Dragonfly and Maven shows a Google that does not rectify or is transparent until information comes to light that mobilize workers and organizations
The problem is that for the Google privacy team, these processes and events were not public, and it was fundamental that they were, because it is the area dedicated to safeguarding the rights of users. They only knew what was happening after the revelations began in the press, which caused them to be "really upset" and to face those responsible for DragonFly.
After this, Google cut the access of 265.com to the engineers, which damaged the advance of the project, because their data "were integral for Dragonfly". Since then, they have focused on Chinese searches on Google from countries such as the United States, and not Mainland China as it did with 265.com.
These data have little to do with those collected with the previous process, so the Dragonfly team has stopped receiving accurate data that makes them progress. The end is that many groups of engineers have been transferred to other projects, after being informed that they left China aside and focused on India, Indonesia, Russia or Brazil.
On the other hand was Dragonfly, the project with which, after leaving China in 2010, Google wanted to return with a search engine that worked with the censorship imposed by the iron regime of Xi Jinping. As we have told, this has generated a division among employees and criticism of organizations that were responsible for human rights, such as Amnesty International.
According to The Intercept, the media that uncovered everything, critics of the project may be in luck, because Google has effectively ended Dragonfly, after there were strong internal clashes.
To build its search engine, and despite its experience in the field, Google has used data obtained through the website 265.com, which it acquired in 2008 and serves as a home page for millions of users who use it as a place to visit. to inquire about markets, horoscopes, cheap flights.
Knowing the data collection power of the web, Google stored user searches, before sending it to the competitor search engine, Baidu. According to two engineers told The Intercept, they obtained large amounts of information about user queries, and at least one of them accessed an API to collect data from web searches. In this way, DragonFly would take shape and adapt better to the most common searches in Mandarin. That is to say, that among other things, it would better integrate better what websites to block.
The process with Dragonfly and Maven shows a Google that does not rectify or is transparent until information comes to light that mobilize workers and organizations
The problem is that for the Google privacy team, these processes and events were not public, and it was fundamental that they were, because it is the area dedicated to safeguarding the rights of users. They only knew what was happening after the revelations began in the press, which caused them to be "really upset" and to face those responsible for DragonFly.
After this, Google cut the access of 265.com to the engineers, which damaged the advance of the project, because their data "were integral for Dragonfly". Since then, they have focused on Chinese searches on Google from countries such as the United States, and not Mainland China as it did with 265.com.
These data have little to do with those collected with the previous process, so the Dragonfly team has stopped receiving accurate data that makes them progress. The end is that many groups of engineers have been transferred to other projects, after being informed that they left China aside and focused on India, Indonesia, Russia or Brazil.
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