‘Google- is spy tool’

Iran's police chief Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said that Google is not a search engine, but a spying tool. Moghaddam told ILNA that people's information security should be protected against enemies and launching a national internet can serve to this protection.

"We are not cutting our cyber relations with abroad and international internet service by launching own national internet," he said.

Iran's information minister said the country's own internet network will solve problems with costs, security and bandwidth, IRNA reported on Jan.8.

When the network becomes operational in a few weeks, internet use will no longer need an international bandwidth for domestic connections and bandwidth expenses will drop up to 30 percent, Reza Taghipour said. With domestic communications routed through the "national information network" the international bandwidth will be freed for international communications, Mr. Taghipour said.

The network's purpose is to provide Iranian citizens with the safe environment to use the internet and to protect Iran from cyber-attacks. Protecting privacy and preventing cyber-attacks are concerns all the countries in the world, the information minister said.


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