Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee About Data Collection Practices

This is his first public testimony in front of Congress

Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the company’s data collection practices and insisted that the company’s algorithms in its search results were absent of political bias considerations, he told lawmakers on Tuesday in a House hearing.

Pichai told lawmakers he was a “technology optimist … because I believe in people and their ability to use technology to improve their lives” and insisted that Google had “no plans” to launch a censored search engine in China (known as Project Dragonfly), which has become the subject of a great deal of scrutiny and concern.

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