Comment "slightest risk" (Score 4, Insightful) 159
it doesn't want even the slightest risk of China's having access to private information.
If engineers in Beijing had access to their databases for several months, that's not "the slightest risk". That's a virtual certainty this information is now in the hands of the Chinese Government. I mean, come on, if Google was doing work to support China's "Social Credit" system I'd fully expect the five eyes to have ten copies by lunchtime. What, are we supposed the believe the Chinese Government is somehow less likely to spy that our own?