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Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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Re: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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Genuine question: why is there not more outrage over Bing working in China? Surely there's as much user tracking/censorship as Google is doing?

I think it is just due to the fact that Google has such a massive market share. In comparison, Bing seems pretty insignificant and would make less of an impact.

Re: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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Genuine question: why is there not more outrage over Bing working in China? Surely there's as much user tracking/censorship as Google is doing?

Microsoft and Bing never started with the mantra of "Don't be evil". Microsoft also has a much more established history of working with different government agencies and foreign governments. The perceived contrast from what people expect from Google and what Google is doing now is just that much more glaring/obvious.

Re: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

Not very nice being tracked is it? I hope that will be a wake-up call for everyone at Google.

Re: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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>Emails demanding deletion of the memo contained “pixel trackers” that notified human resource managers when their messages had been read, recipients determined.

This seems like the worst part (not that the rest is not bad), anyone has an idea of what this "pixel trackers" are and how they actually work?

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