US and China start war of words with Google

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ratcheted up pressure on the Chinese Thursday over allegations of spying on the personal email accounts of top-level US officials.

“We are obviously very concerned about Google’s announcement regarding a campaign that the company believes originated in China to collect the passwords of Google email passwords,” Clinton said in remarks to reporters at the State Department.

“Google [GOOG  528.00    2.40  (+0.46%)   ] informed the State Department of this yesterday in advance of its public announcement,” she said. “These allegations are very serious, we take them seriously and we’re looking into them.”

Clinton’s comments put a spotlight on China and its alleged long-running efforts to penetrate US business and political cyber security in pursuit of secrets relating to everything from technological advances to behind-the-scenes political decision making.

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