Press Conference: Cancel ’Project Dragonfly’, the censored China search engine

Monday 10 December

1. Starting at 18:00 CCT / 10:00 GMT /

2. Starting at 11:00 EST / 08:00 PCT / 16:00 GMT

(online media briefings)

On Monday 10 December 2018, the 70th International Human Rights Day, Tibetan, Uyghur and Chinese rights groups will join digital tech and ethical consumer specialists in two joint media briefings to oppose and discuss Google’s development of a censored search engine, code-named Project Dragonfly. In order to develop this controversial search engine for the Chinese market, Google must comply with China’s tight censorship laws and intrusive programme of online surveillance, effectively facilitating the Chinese government’s repressive regime and compromising their commitment to human rights. Senior research scientist, and former Google employee, Jack Poulson, will join the panel of rights activists and discuss the reasons behind his decision to resign from the company in August 2018 after he raised ethical concerns about this project.

Both briefings will be held via Zoom and participating journalists and individuals can register to join via the following links:

1. Hosted from London; Start time 10:00 AM GMT - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aCx2ZBDuTfeExOAPkc4Clg

2. Hosted from New York; Start time 11:00 AM EST - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bSIqxmqVQoyN_HXCyG5Uug

More information is available here.