Sen. Dick Durbin Writes a Letter to Baidu

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    5 May 2011

    Are Baidu and Facebook cooking something up for China? U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D, Ill.) wants to know, too.

    The assistant Senate majority leader wrote a letter this week asking about rumors that have been circulating about a potential partnership between the two companies, expressing concerns that the Baidu doesn’t take measures to protect its users’ rights to freedom of expression and privacy, and asking what the company would do to protect users if it launches a social-networking service with Facebook.