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Google, China create search engine that tracks, censors searches and links them to users’ phone numbers

By Katelyn Caralle
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Google, China create search engine that tracks, censors searches and links them to users’ phone numbers

A prototype of a censored search engine that links users’ queries to their personal phone numbers is the result of a collaboration between Google and China.

This technology would make it easier for the Communist Party of China to monitor people and what they are searching, the Intercept reported Friday.

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