Eli Lake, Columnist

Believe Google’s Promise to Be Transparent About China

The company’s employees will let the public know its plans even if its CEO doesn’t.

December 11, 2018 at 9:28 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

He promised to tell the truth.
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Google would like you to know that it is transparent.

This was the mantra repeated over and over by Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai when queried by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. That was the word he used when asked about everything from the algorithms used to optimize search results to the location data its phones and apps beam back to third-party developers.