googleがgoogle.cnの検索記録を中国からアメリカに移す
googleは検索エンジンがどのように使われているか知るためユーザーによる検索クエリとそのユーザーIPを記録に残しているが、今回google.cnの検索記録を中国からアメリカに移した。これによってgoogleの許可なしに中国政府によってデータにアクセスされる危険をなくすようにしたもの。
In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the U.S., a company executive said this week.
The company has decided to store search records from the site outside of the country in order to prevent China's government from being able to access the data without Google's consent, said Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, speaking Monday at a panel discussion at Santa Clara University. "We didn't want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government," he said.
Google retains information on the search queries performed by its users, along with the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses associated with queries, to better understand how its search engine is being used, Norvig said.
