- Google (GOOG, GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai testifies today in front of the U.S. House Judiciary committee.
- Update: Pichai says Google has no current plans to launch a censored search engine in China, but doesn't rule out a future launch. He says he will be "fully transparent" with lawmakers if Google resumes search products in the region.
- Pichai says users are in charge of the personal information available to Google: “For Google services, you have a choice of what information is collected, and we make it transparent."
- Pichai says the company reminds users to do privacy checkups and that 160M users went into their My Account settings in the past 28 days. My Account displays what information Google has and toggles for turning that access off.
- When asked if Google could improve its dashboard and privacy education methods, Pichai responds that it's "something I think we can do better" and that it's "something we are working on."
- Previously: Google admits unauthorized location tracking (Aug. 17)
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