Google Ideas Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries

December 05, 2013

Google Ideas introduced new products during a conference in New York City called Conflict in a Connected World, which the tech giant is sponsoring in conjunction with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Gen Next Foundation. Google Ideas, the New York City–based “think/do tank” run by the Internet search giant, is launching several new technologies designed to highlight hacker attacks around the world to help people in repressive regimes access the Internet. The new products represent the most substantial offerings delivered by the three-year-old Google policy unit and could be a major boon to activists and reformers in the world’s most closed and repressive societies.

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