Why does Google adapt to the Chinese government
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With the popularity of Google as main internet search engine [View Pie Chart], intelligence agencies have been more then interested in Internet surveillance under consumers. By determining the geolocation of the consumer, by looking at the unique IP-addresses, almost 80% can be tracked back to a major city (node) and even 90% can be allocated to a country. In 2002 Chinese governmental instances started to worry about the fact that Google was storing IP number, a time stamp, a unique cookie ID, and browser information of their users. If this information is available to the National Security Agency from Google -- and current U.S. laws almost require Google to provide this information to the feds, especially when the Internet user is a non-U.S. citizen in a country that's of national security interest to the U.S. -- then China may be well-advised to block the use of U.S. engines to protect their own national security.
