Google Takes a Stance, No More Censorship of Chinese Search Results PDF | Print | E-mail
Written by David Kauzlaric
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:24
In the most recent post on the official Google blog, information was disclosed about a hacker located in China that tried to hack into the Gmail accounts of some human rights activists in China but were unsuccessful. Google discovered that close to two dozen other large companies were under similar attack in industries ranging from technology, internet, media, finance, and chemical, suggesting that Google was not the sole target.

An independent investigation — by Google — turned up information that Gmail accounts belonging to people who advocate human rights in the U.S., Europe, and China were “routinely accessed by third parties.â€