Posted on 06/07/2018 5:55:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a letter sent to Googles parent company, Alphabet, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) said the tech giants deals with Huawei and two other Chinese companies, Xiaomi and Tencent, raise serious national security concerns. He pressed the search giant to detail more information about the data it may have shared with the firms and where it is stored and he issued a similar request to Twitter.
The new attention adds to the mounting pressure on Silicon Valley about its sometimes-secret data-swapping practices. It could also further heighten trade tensions between the United States and China, which the U.S. government often has criticized for its digital snooping.
A Google spokeswoman said the company had agreements with dozens of device makers around the world. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreements, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for user data, the company said.
The new scrutiny comes days after Facebook confirmed a report in The Washington Post that it had brokered a special data-sharing arrangement with Huawei and three other Chinese technology companies. The pressure on Google was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Facebook and Googles partnerships with Huawei the third-largest smartphone maker in the world have stoked the ire of lawmakers who have long feared the Chinese firm has ties to the countrys communist leaders. Concerns about eavesdropping and other security threats previously led the Pentagon this spring to cease selling Huawei devices on its military bases. Some lawmakers even reportedly pressured AT&T to stop selling Huawei phones.
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In the last week, google employees pressured the management to stop developing AI for amercian military use. They also announced an AI project in China. Google which also restricts conservative searches and comments has become an insidious anti-american company.
Huawei is a known extension of Chinese state security. None of their products are allowed in any federal agency.
Additionally, they stole all their technology, directly, from Cisco. To that they added their special sauce.
Google, communist collusion, oh what a surprise!:-)
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