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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by gaius on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:27AM (#18705239)
it has provisions to identify specific people from search queries

It associates every query with a phone number, not sure what it does for desktops, street address maybe.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by Antonio123123 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:42AM (#18705281)
I think google.com also associates your queries with you account/location/fingerprint.

I think the issue it that it provides API for the government to process this data.

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