Aug. 17 (UPI) — At least 1,400 Google employees signed a letter to company leaders demanding more transparency over a project the tech giant is working on that would be accepted by the Chinese government.
The project is a search engine designed to comply with the Chinese government’s censorship laws and Google employees said they need more information about the project to determine whether it raises any “urgent moral and ethical issues.”
“Currently we do not have the information required to make ethically-informed decisions about our work, our projects, and our employment,” the employees said in the letter.
In 2010, Google removed its search engine from the Chinese web over censorship. But in 2016, Google began developing a new search engine — code-named Dragonfly — to be more compliant with Chinese government demands.
