Firms Asked For China Info
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., wrote to 30 technology and communications companies Tuesday asking them to provide detailed descriptions of their operations and human rights practices in China, CongressDaily reported. Meanwhile, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., announced that the Congressional-Executive Commission on China will hold a hearing Feb. 10 on Internet policies in China. Dorgan and Levin are the chairman and co-chairman, respectively, of the commission, which monitors human rights violations there.
The hearing follows last month's announcement by Google that it would stop censoring search results for users in China, a move the Internet firm said may force it to leave China altogether. Google made the move after revealing it had been the victim of a cyber attack originating from China that attempted to gain access to the e-mail accounts of human rights activists and other information.
Durbin said he is gathering information about the conduct of other big technology companies to prepare for a hearing on Google's actions. To read more, click here (subscription required).
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