Members of Congress are probing Alphabet Inc.’s Google about its relationships with Chinese telecommunications companies including Huawei Technologies Co.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, asked Alphabet in a Thursday letter about its partnerships with device makers Huawei and Xiaomi Corp., probing whether user data was stored on phones or allowed on the Chinese companies’ servers and how storage agreements were monitored and enforced.
Warner wrote that "the possibility of Chinese vendors with documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party having access to" interfaces that could give them access to user data from Alphabet subsidiaries "raises serious national security concerns." He also sent a similar letter to Twitter Inc.
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WNU Editor: If Facebook shared its data with Huawei and other Chinese phone makers, I am sure Google has done the same thing .... Facebook confirms it shared data with Chinese phone makers, including Huawei (Fast Company).
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Warner questions Alphabet, Twitter on Chinese data sharing -- Politico
U.S. government reportedly unhappy about Google's relationship with Huawei -- Android Central
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Like Google declining to continue AI research with the DOD, we have another example of a US company not seeing the dangers of China to the US. China exploits the insufferable naivety of the Zucks and Google technocrats for long term damage to the US.
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