Google and other tech giants have said they will block an Internet security certificate issued by Kazakhstan's authoritarian government over concerns it can intercept people's data.
Smartphone users in the Central Asian nation were last month redirected to a website telling them to download the government's "Qaznet", prompting a backlash online.
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