Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more international competition than ever Axios : Google CEO: Big Tech scrutiny is “here to stay” Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post : Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search ‘idiot’ do I get pictures of Trump? Richard Nieva / CNET : Google CEO hearing could have covered so much more ground Adi Robertson / The Verge : Google's CEO had to remind Congress that Google doesn't make iPhones Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Republicans are mad at Google for search bias—will they do anything about it? Jessica Guynn / USA Today : Google hearing: CEO Sundar Pichai tells Congress there are no ‘current plans’ for China, rejects bias claims Will Oremus / Slate : Google's Web of Confusion Chris Merriman / Inquirer : Google fined, er, $7,532 for failing to comply with Russian search law Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review : What Google CEO Sundar Pichai's visit to Congress taught us (spoiler: not a lot) Associated Press : Google grilled in Congress: What's ahead for tech companies Firstpost : Google CEO Sundar Pichai battles grueling Congress hearing: Here are the key takeaways Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Google CEO Says No Plan to ‘Launch’ Censored Search Engine in China Jill Shen / TechNode : Briefing: Google not planning to launch Chinese search engine: CEO Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy : House Members Grill Google CEO Amid Bipartisan Privacy Concerns Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google CEO admits company must better address the spread of conspiracy theories on YouTube Fortune : Pichai Speaks, May Vote, China Trade: CEO Daily for December 12, 2018 Abner Li / 9to5Google : Sundar Pichai suggests other non-Search areas Google could explore in China, like healthcare Adi Robertson / The Verge : Sundar Pichai had to explain to Congress why Googling ‘idiot’ turns up pictures of Trump Kieren McCarthy / The Register : Google CEO tells US Congress Chocolate Factory will unleash Dragonfly in China Tyler Clifford / CNBC : Google must sway Congress on regulations or tech will face ‘direct threat,’ says cybersecurity expert Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News : The 8 Strangest Moments From Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Congressional Hearing Bloomberg : Google Chief Stresses American Roots in Debut Before Congress Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Human Rights Groups to Sundar Pichai: Listen to Your Employees and Halt Project Dragonfly Conor Cawley / TechCo : The Best (and Worst) Questions Congress Asked Google Robby Soave / Hit & Run : Guess Which Congressman Thought a Malfunctioning iPhone Was Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Fault Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks Android users know how much their phones are tracking them Sara Fischer / Axios : Fact-checking claims of Google bias at House hearing PYMNTS.com : Google CEO Denies Data Privacy Breach, Bias Mashable : At the Google hearing, Congress proves they still have no idea how the internet works Allison Schiff / AdExchanger : A Masterclass In Political Grandstanding As Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies In DC Bloomberg : Rep. Ted Poe Wants to Know: ‘Does Google Track My Movement?’ Sissi Cao / Observer : Google CEO Was Photobombed By the ‘Monopoly Man’ at Historic Congress Hearing Margi Murphy / Telegraph : Google boss denies plans to launch censored search engine in China Colin Lecher / The Verge : Republicans pushed Pichai about bias allegations, leaving China and other issues behind MacDailyNews : Google CEO Pichai denies company's political bias in congressional hearing Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo : Sundar Pichai Tells Congress Google Has No Plans to Launch Censored Search in China ‘Right Now’ Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Google CEO won't rule out relaunching in China New York Times : Sundar Pichai, Google's C.E.O., Testifies on Capitol Hill Chris Matyszczyk / ZDNet : Google's Pichai says people know how much Android snoops (really?) Rachel Kraus / Mashable : Google CEO Sundar Pichai pressed on bias and China search engine on Capitol Hill Reuters : Google CEO: ‘no plans’ to launch Chinese search engine Ben Fox Rubin / CNET : Google CEO denies search launch in China, commits to transparency Bloomberg : Google Never Forgets ‘Our American Roots,’ CEO Pichai Says David McCabe / Axios : Google CEO refutes conservative claims of search bias Alina Selyukh / NPR : Google CEO Says He Leads ‘Without Political Bias’ In Congressional Testimony Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : I transcribed this whole exchange between Rep. Cicilline and Sundar Pichai on China, because Pichai's evasive responses are so, so telling. #googlehearing http://twitter.com/... @cspan : Rep. Steve King: “How does that show up on a 7-year old's iPhone who's playing a kid's game?” Google CEO Sundar Pichai: ""Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company..." Watch full hearing here: https://cs.pn/2SEvGL1 pic.twitter.com/4lT8Daj5yn Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : Rep. Poe (R-TX): “I have an iPhone.* If I go and sit with my Democratic friends over there, does Google track my movement?” *(Google does not make iPhones.) Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : So that was Sundar, if I'm not mistaken, evading direct questions on: 1) if staff are still working on Dragfonly; and 2) if he will commit not to build surveillance tools. Will Sommer / @willsommer : The Google hearing has been going on for 90 minutes, and still no one has asked about YouTube radicalization and conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, the official House livestream is filling up with QAnon supporters. pic.twitter.com/sLeDcCpaJO Jessica Guynn / @jguynn : New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the next leader of the House Judiciary Committee, denounces “the fantasy dreamed up by some conservatives” that Google and other tech companies are biased against conservatives. “No credible evidence supports this right wing conspiracy theory.” Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Maybe these hearings shouldn't be live, and just make written Q&As with pointed questions and follow up from Congress? I don't know. I do know these hearings feel like they get us no closer to good public policy. Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Diligent overview of the Google CEO's hearing in Congress today by @KurtWagner8. Tech giants should simplify & seek explicit consent for data collection, but users need to do the inconvenient work of learning about and changing settings http://www.recode.net/... Doug MacMillan / @dmac1 : Pichai just acknowledged companies who discover a bug affecting user privacy are required to disclose it in 72 hours. Google disclosed its first Google+ bug within seven months, its second within three weeks. @recode : Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked @Google CEO @sundarpichai to commit to ending forced arbitration for all internal employee issues around discrimination, not just issues of sexual harassment. “We are definitely looking into this area further,” Pichai said: http://www.recode.net/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : New: today Google CEO Sundar Pichai repeatedly said the company has no plans “right now” to launch censored search in China That seems a careful answer. The project has 300 people working on it. Not knowing when *exactly* it will launch is not the same https://motherboard.vice.com/ ... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : .@RepJayapal: Where are you in the process of looking at ending forced arbitration, not just for sexual harassment but more broadly? Pichai dithers and says harassment policy is already in action. Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : To Pichai's credit, he seems to have a better grasp of Google's data collection policies than Zuckerberg showed in the spring hearings. Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : —@tedlieu searches Steve King's name in Google at hearing and a critical article about his comments on immigration came up. Lieu tells the committee about negative search results, “Don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter, consider blaming yourself.” @recode : Rep. Ted Lieu is one of several Democrats today to call the accusations of @Google's alleged anti-conservative bias a “waste of time”. http://www.recode.net/... @ceciliakang : “I use your apparatus often,” said Rep. Steve Cohen, Dem of Tennessee @recode : Rep. Ted Poe just gave a great performance during his five minutes: He held up his iPhone and asked if @Google could track his movements if he moved across the room. “Not by default,” @sundarpichai said: http://www.recode.net/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : This @RepTedDeutch question is, finally, great: Can you use the locations Google tracks to back up and identify who that is? I know YOU can't do it, but could someone? Pichai, in a bind, says he will follow up and acknowledges this is a good question. Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : We can't (only) blame members of Congress for asking the wrong questions. We have to also blame Zuckerberg and Pichai for evading explanation of how their data collection practices work. Davey Alba / @daveyalba : Basically, Rep. Jordan trying to imply that Google helped push the Latino vote, essentially helping Dems out in the election. This was a loooong exchange and I can't begin to explain how absurd it was to witness that in person Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : Jordan is hammering Pichai for a Google employee helping to get out the Latino vote “in key states.” Sundar seems more flustered with this question than much of the others Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : I found some conservative news in Google searches, fyi: pic.twitter.com/oI8JCtKwLg Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Some congressional aides out there wrote some very confused and confusing questions for their bosses. David Ruddock / @rdrv3 : reminder that there is not going to be bipartisan support for Regulating The Google once the new session of congress starts next year so everything today is basically just Republican fanfic Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Rep. Poe just screams at Sundar Pichai asking if Google would know if he moves seats. Pichai says he needs more info. Poe yells that it's a yes or no. Actually, it depends on whether Poe has disabled location history and disabled location tracking on Google services. Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : i'm all for lawmakers bullying tech CEOs after a rough 3 years but it's clear that a good number of house members aren't up to the task @recode : Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is the first to directly ask @sundarpichai about @Google's plans to build a censored search product in China. Pichai responded categorically that the company right now “has no plans to launch in China”: http://www.recode.net/... Bobby Goodlatte / @rsg : Political ads on Google, FB, Youtube, & Twitter should not be priced by live auction. Auctions favor outrage & click-bait driven politics Two competing candidates, one with outrageous & incendiary ads, the other with policy-driven ads, can see a 5X+ difference in ad rates https://twitter.com/... Sam Stein / @samstein : Shocked to be reading that this Google hearing on the Hill is just a bunch of old lawmakers wondering why Google won't give them the search results they crave Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : Lotta self-owns at this Google hearing from lawmakers who don't understand search ranking. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) complains to @sundarpichai that to find any positive coverage of the ACA repeal and the GOP tax plan, you had to go “deep into the search results.” Tony Romm / @tonyromm : This opening exchange with Goodlatte and Pichai is exactly what I was thinking would happen — lawmakers are going to go for the jugular with Pichai, who isn't a bombast. Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NOW: Google CEO Sundar Pichai faces off with Congress. Follow our coverage here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : We'll know Sundar is on the ropes this morning if, in an effort to steer the conversation to more comfortable ground, he announces a new messaging app Jessica Guynn / @jguynn : Nadler, who has said he plans to pursue the concentration of power held by a small number of tech giants, says privacy and antitrust are legitimate areas of inquiry for the House Judiciary Committee. Tony Romm / @tonyromm : Goodlatte opens hearing by saying that Google collects so much data in such a way “that would even make the NSA blush"Reality: GOP, and this panel, has not moved with urgency in two years to address consumer privacy Tony Romm / @tonyromm : McCarthy opens hearing. GOP Leader doesn't sit on panel but helped org the hearing. Q for him is “Are America's technology companies serving as instruments of freedom—or instruments of control?"Major opponent of Google's China ambitions, he signals in opening Tony Romm / @tonyromm : Hearing hasn't started, but Alex Jones is here because of course he is, screaming in a hallway about free speech rights and how Google has violated them (not how it works) and generally frustrating Cap Police. Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Google posted Sundar Pichai's opening comments for tomorrow. Doesn't mention China. Heavy, heavy stress on fact that Google is an American company. Mentions all the states it employs people in and home states of Larry and Sergey http://judiciary.house.gov/...