China and Google Falling Out Over Privacy
Chinese cyber-attackers assault Google network. The company determined that the attacks against it came from within China. The assumption is if the attack came from inside China then the government had something to do with it. There were significant privacy concerns regarding US citizens traveling to China for last Summer Olympics. The tiff is playing out as Google reconciles collaboration with Chinese authorities over content screening of Chinese users at their government's request.
Google, Facebook, Privacy, and China, PC World, Robert X. Cringely, Blog InfoWorld, January 20, 2010
