Not to be left out of the concern over the role search engines play in people’s online rights, this New York Times article points out the growing conflicts Yahoo is experiencing regarding the rights of their users, including censoring search results in China (apparently with little user notification), and providing information to Chinese authorities to aid the investigation & arrest of dissidents.
Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
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