From the Mercury News (link):
Google’s research chief said the search giant and other technology firms with Chinese operations are discussing a code of principles to address censorship and protection of people’s privacy in repressive countries.
At Santa Clara University Monday night, Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, provided some insight into the internal debates within the company over its decision to comply with Chinese censorship laws.
Despite a heavy downpour, 170 people turned up for a seminar on the ethics of search engines. Questions about censorship and China underscored the event, planned before Silicon Valley tech companies’ cooperation with China’s government became the subject of a congressional inquiry two weeks ago.
See also “Google moving search records out of China” from Infoworld.com.
