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US Conducted Secret Surveillance of China's Huawei, Prosecutors Say (reuters.com)
U.S. authorities gathered information about Huawei through secret surveillance that they plan to use in a case accusing the Chinese telecom equipment maker of sanctions-busting and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday. From a report: Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Solomon said at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the evidence, obtained under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), would require classified handling. The government notified Huawei in a court filing on Thursday of its intent to use the information, saying it was "obtained or derived from electronic surveillance and physical search," but gave no details. The United States has been pressuring other countries to drop Huawei from their cellular networks, worried its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying. The company says the concerns are unfounded. Brian Frey, a former federal prosecutor who is not involved in the Huawei case, said FISA surveillance, which requires a warrant from a special court, is generally sought in connection with suspected espionage.
Would you rather know that two agencies were spying on you or think that none were?
The US btw ... only started spying on Huawei after having had several allies report odd behavior regarding corporate and military info being stolen and later appearing to be used in Chinese tech companies. The US, nor its allies who asked them about it, had a clue it connected together through Huawei.
Having said that, Huawei are definitely killing it in product design and development, even if they had to steal IP/research in the past to get them going....
It's a Canadian court though, so if the spying was done outside the US (and thus almost certainly illegal in the country where it happened) that might help her case.
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