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Google Has Stopped Responding To Data Requests from Hong Kong Authorities (cnet.com) 34

Google will stop responding to requests for data from Hong Kong authorities with the search giant instead directing requests for user data to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States that is done in conjunction with the Department of Justice. From a report: The move comes after a new national security law imposed by China curbed political expression. Although Hong Kong officials have said that the law would only target a "small minority," human rights groups such as Amnesty International are concerned that police will use the new law as a way to crack down on government critics with those that are found guilty potentially facing life imprisonment. Google, Facebook and Twitter each announced in July that they were pausing the review of the Hong Kong government requests for user data to study the new law, with Google now taking the next step in stopping responding directly. "Since the new national security law was enacted in June, we have not produced data in response to new requests from Hong Kong authorities and that remains the case," a Google spokesperson tells CNET in a statement.
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Google Has Stopped Responding To Data Requests from Hong Kong Authorities

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  • by al0ha ( 1262684 ) on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:16PM (#60401769) Journal
    Mmmkkkaaayyyy? That'd be great.
    • by lessSockMorePuppet ( 6778792 ) on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:18PM (#60401945) Homepage

      A single person seeing a license plate is a witness.
      Following a person around and recording their movements is stalking.
      Tracking everyone's movements all the time is a surveillance state.

      Scale matters. Ban organized surveillance, now.

      • by rtb61 ( 674572 )

        A corporation telling the government what it will do and will not do, wow, that is just so criminal. Google to the Hong Kong government, you are not the government, Google is the government of Hong Kong, we tell you, you do not tell us. Google unwisely has made the Hong Kong government lose face, look pathetic, being told by one US corporation what it can do and what it can not do, how dare those Chinese issue instructions to Americans (it will be twisted so hard against google, those googlites in Hong Kong

    • by oic0 ( 1864384 )
      Might as well just ask them to close up shop at that point. That's where all of their revenue comes from.
  • by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:56PM (#60401873)

    Yeah, that's been my experience for the past 5+ years...

  • One down, the rest of the world to go.

    It would be actual news if Google grew a pair of nutz and stopped responding to everyone unless they were presented with a lawful judge approved warrant signed by a judge having proper jurisdiction. Since meeting the requirement of having a valid warrant issued by a judge of competent jurisdiction is impossible to meet, Google should just em all to go fuck themselves.

    • by ghoul ( 157158 )

      If they stopped responding to FBI requests without a court order, they would get the Huawei treatment from the US govt.

      • no they would NOT.

        they are bigger than the governemnt, now, in terms of REAL power.

        thou shalt not fuck with the google. they hold ALL the info, more than even the NSA.

        I hate google for so many reasons, but I'd buy a ticket to a cage fight between them and 'the gov'. the gov has no teeth and can't really harm google. the blowback would be a death sentence to any politician. and they KNOW that.

        I do want google to stop supporting bad goverment (all around the world) requests. this is a good first start.

  • ...they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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  • But they STILL take the requests from mainland China. I love how they make it look like they are no longer aiding the communist Chinese.
  • All these requests through DOJ, just after this:
    https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14... [npr.org]
    DOJ is seizing Iranian boats? Also still seizing cash:
    https://reason.com/2018/08/06/... [reason.com]
    But its the international stuff that seems new. Is this Trump upping the role of Barr/DOJ or was DOJ always involved in such international action?

  • The extradition law and the national security laws are quite reasonable and in line with any other country. Some of the behaviour of the protestors/rioters/terrorists is abhorrent and the perpetrators should be arrested and brought to justice... Not to mention the (alleged) murderer who started this whole thing last year.

    • The extradition law and the national security laws are quite reasonable and in line with any other country. Some of the behaviour of the protestors/rioters/terrorists is abhorrent and the perpetrators should be arrested and brought to justice... Not to mention the (alleged) murderer who started this whole thing last year.

      So funny that you failed to mention this National Security Law doesn’t define what constitutes colluding with foreigners; probably your posting in any foreign forums already infringe this law. Further this version of “national security Law “ secure and protect the people with power to run the country; not to protecting the countries in its best interests.

    • by piojo ( 995934 )

      The extradition law and the national security laws are quite reasonable and in line with any other country.

      Does any country with rule of law have an extradition agreement with another country that does not follow rule of law? There is a huge difference between when law and precedent decides your fate, versus when your fate is decided on a case by case basis by government officials. In the latter case, there is no predictability, and you do not know in advance whether your actions are illegal.

  • Due to China being a fascist nation that has engaged in ethnic genocide, persecution of religious and cultural minorities, disappearances of private citizens, executing people without fair trials, and administrating death camps and lethal force against protesters, Google is complicit in the assistance of the modern day Third Reich Nazis.

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