# Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

<https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/>

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## What Jamie wrote

[“Don’t be evil.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil)

> The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location — and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data.

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