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US Lawmakers Want Google To Reconsider Links To China's Huawei (reuters.com)
Some U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have asked Google on Wednesday to reconsider its work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, citing security concerns. Reuters reports: In a letter to Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, the lawmakers said Google recently decided not to renew "Project Maven," an artificial intelligence research partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense. "While we regret that Google did not want to continue a long and fruitful tradition of collaboration between the military and technology companies, we are even more disappointed that Google apparently is more willing to support the Chinese Communist Party than the U.S. military," they wrote. The letter was signed by Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, Republican Representatives Michael Conaway and Liz Cheney, and Democratic Representative Dutch Ruppersberger.
"Like many U.S. companies, we have agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreement, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for use data," she said in an emailed statement.
"Like many U.S. companies, we have agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreement, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for use data," she said in an emailed statement.
”Like many U.S. companies, we have agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreement, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for use data," she said in an emailed statement.
And this has fuck all to do with anything, how?
They remove the NSA spyware from Android so duh gubmint can't perpetrate more inside jobs like 9-11. Ignore the Huawei haters. AE911truth org
I view that as full Bullying from the gov.
The article reads like them complaining about Huawei is partly in response to google cancelling their Project Maven work.
Basically it is the usual spiel of renouncing your enemies for being unpatriotic and endangering the country.
Now if they can prove that US consumer data is in jeopardy because of their ties, then that is another mater. I didn't see any proof in that article.
Strange they didn't mention the other big Chinese OEM with government ties.... ZTE, the one that broke Iran and North Korean sanctions.
"@realDonaldTrump
President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!
8:01 AM - 13 May 2018 "
Some deal was done, Trump let them off, then there was some internal arguments, then that became a fine instead of $1 billion, then Senate voted to keep the sanctions, and its currently in limbo while the House decides to back it or not.
Make China Great Again! Too many jobs lost in China!
... is the "Think of the children," model.
Especially damning is the "Communist," reference.
To make anything great again you gotta go back.
Say hello to 1950.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Good luck with your Ivanka pornhub channel though. You'll have one uuuuge subscriber.
Sounds like some fascist anti-freemarket politicians demanding private companies suck military dick even harder. Worship of the military is a bad thing.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
We're running out of gas on the witch hunt bus here and we could sure use some help. Its hard work trying to convince americans to give a shit about the red scare nearly 30 years after the fall of the soviet union.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Its some pissed military contract manager who has a bad case of sour grapes because he cannot not fulfill his 'development' project as it was all going to be from google..
'Boo Hoo, I'm going to throw all my toys out of the cot and scream until I get what I want' is how this reads.
Pathetic really.
These GOP are against Google working with a company that is spying on the west (which they are right to do), BUT, they support Trump's backing of ZTE who was caught not only spying, but selling off intelligence to other groups.
And Americans wonder why we are in such a fucked up state.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
A US gov worker, contractor at a US mil site, camp, fort, port, station will drive home from work.
Their own network devices will be made in China. Every movement to base and all the content they consume off base will be collected on by a Communist nation.
China will surround every US camp, fort, base, port with digital collection networks. Much like the NSA and GCHQ do globally.
Log every officer and their interests. Collect on the moments of every contractor and see their full digital lifestyles.
Encryption will do nothing as the device supports the same keys and updates.
What the NSA and GCHQ had to spend billions and decades on, China will get given for free by US mil and contractors enjoying low cost networking products from China.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
"...she said in an emailed statement."
She? Who? Unreferenced pronoun error.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Of course he's American. It says he's Indian American on his bio page.
ZTE who was caught not only spying, but selling off intelligence to other groups.
Care to back up this lie with some links?
The more pressure the state puts on these manufacturers, the more attractive they become. They must be mad that they have Chinese backdoors instead of US backdoors. I would much rather my info leak to a country on the other side of the world that doesn't give an ass about me than to the psychopaths running the US panopticon.
Still not a shred of hard evidence against Huawei, but they're CHINESE! Chinese = national security threat. We should probably put all the Chinese-Americans in a camp for a while until we can figure out what's going on.
Or are less work. They don't want "results", just (not special) access to all the data.
I own the Huawei phone. It is my second Huawei phone. The first I dropped on literally the granite rock in the mountains and broke the glass a bit.
It is an excellent phone, 2 - 3 times cheaper, but with the sames specs or better.
We know from the Snowden leaks that the US government has the means to infect specific Cisco gear with targeted implants for spying or attack purposes. Its obvious they are worried that the Chinese may do the same for Huawei gear (imagine network gear at the core of something like the new AT&T 5G network being used for spying and the amount of intelligence data that the Chinese could gain from that)
Pichai said "Like many U.S. companies, we have agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreement, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for use data" One bets that when it means millions that Alphabet like other corporations with ties to the PRC that Google will cough it up when the CPC squeezes hard enough.
Go ahead and prove there's no malicious code in firmware. Hell, go ahead and audit the processor microcode. You're a good shill, but your argument is completely transparent.
Yes that's what you should do. When called out on your lies, just apologise and move on. Don't just hide away and ignore them, it only looks bad for you.
Of even show evidence why it's not a lie if you can. haha of course you never can, just go with that first choice.
Of course it would be even easier to just not lie so much in the first place, check your 'facts' once in a while, stuff like that.