Google today threatened to shut down its operations in China after uncovering hacking attempts into email accounts of Chinese human rights activists, terming it as “highly sophisticated”, reports India’s Business Standard. Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, reportedly writes in a blog post that “these attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered – combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web – have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China”.
Related/Update:
A New Approach to China, Google Blog, January 12, 2010
