Google has halted a data collection project in China and struck a major blow to the controversial Dragonfly project... Google is still researching Chinese web searches in an effort to launch a search engine that complies with the country’s censorship regime, although an official launch seems to have been indefinitely postponed. But in the face of widespread opposition within the company, Google executives shuttered one of the project’s most central data sources, making the ongoing work far more difficult... 265 was shut down shortly, and the remaining Dragonfly team is facing significant difficulties advancing the project without the data source. In the months that followed, Dragonfly has become a flashpoint for employee protests within Google, with more than 400 Google employees signing a letter in opposition to the project. A separate group of employees signed a similar letter in support of the project.