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Apple, Microsoft and Other US Tech Companies Undergoing 'Security Reviews' in China (neowin.net)

Posted by msmash on from the China,-US,-and-their-tense-relationship dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Chinese government is keeping an ever watchful eye on the companies doing business in the country, especially when foreign companies compete with local ones. To that end, the Chinese authorities have begun a security review among many different American technology companies like Apple and others. These, while mostly done out of the public sphere, seem to target issues like encryption and data storage. According to a report from the New York Times (paywalled; alternate source), government representatives have been questioning engineers and executives from different technology companies with regards to these issues for the last nine months. The so-called security reviews are being done by the Cyberspace Administration of China, with the government committee including experts tied to the country's military and security agencies.The Verge has more details.

3 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. Unintended consequences of weakening encryption by headkase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, the USA should put back-doors in all encryption solutions! Then China could use them too..

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    Shh.
  2. Re:AKA, we need to see your source code by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh yeah? Well, good luck making the actual hardware, you mor.... oh wait.

  3. Absorbed... by Danathar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Xi reportedly concluded that the best path lay somewhere between these two, with the country needing to decide "which things can be imported but have to be secure and controllable," which tech can be "absorbed for re-innovation," and for "which things we must rely on our own strength and indigenous innovation."

    "absorbed for re-innovation,"

    Sounds like copying to me...