Why does Google adapt to the Chinese government
Why does Google adept to the Chinese government?
With the popularity of Google as main internet search engine, 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.