Google would not release sensitive informations: Cerf

Hyderabad, Feb 23 (UNI) Vinton G Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, also known as father of the Internet, today said Google was only releasing information that it had gathered from public sources and was not releasing any sensitive information.

Talking to newspersons here, he said China had given certain guidelines on what to be released and what not and Google was strictly following those guidelines. Internet was for exchange of information and Google never altered facts it gathered from public sources which would even otherwise have been available to people, he added.

Mr Cerf said there was a popular feeling that Internet was invented in the USA, but it was the result of involvement of several nations.

He said that there were 2.5 billion mobile phones and one billion PCs in the world and the figure was expected to raise rapidly in the future. Asia led the world in the use of Mobiles and Internet, he added.

India, which had a population of 1.13 billion had an user population of only 40 million, reflecting a penetration of only 3.5 percent, he added.

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