Clouds gather over Google’s Saudi deal
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Saudi dissidents accuse the tech giant of bolstering a brutal dictatorship with its plan to provide cloud computing in the kingdom Ten days before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Abdullah Alaoudh was at his home in Washington, D.C. catching up with emails, when a warning banner flashed up on his screen. “Google may have detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password,” read the text, advising him to tighten his online security. Though the Google alert did not name names, Alaoudh (...)