Posted on 05/01/2020 3:42:52 PM PDT by bitt
U.S. senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) plan to introduce a new bill aimed at banning federal employees from using tech platforms that are under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“Companies like Tencent and Huawei are espionage operations for the Chinese Communist Party, masquerading as telecom companies for the 21st century,” said Cruz in a press release.
Cruz added: “Prohibiting the use of these platforms and stopping taxpayers dollars from being used to capitalize Chinese espionage infrastructure are common sense measures to protect American national security.”
Congress is currently in recess until at least May 4, as part of social distancing measures to prevent the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, from spreading.
The bill, named “Countering Chinese Attempts at Snooping (C-CAS) Act of 2020,” would require the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to put together a list of technology companies that they believe are “subject to influence or control” by the Chinese regime.
The Secretary of State would be required to submit the list annually to Congress.
The proposed bill would prohibit U.S. federal employees “to conduct official business over any social media, computer or smartphone application, or telecommunications technology, produced, operated, or hosted” by companies on the list.
The bill identified five Chinese tech companies—Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, Alibaba, and Baidu—saying that they would assist the CCP if called upon, to conduct espionage or gain “insight into the profiles, activity, or location of foreign users” via their products.
China’s national intelligence law, which went into effect in 2017, allows Beijing access to all data stored within its national borders—meaning data on Chinese servers could be accessed by the Chinese regime as well.
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Zoom is owned by a Chinese immigrant and is hosted on servers in China.
Who among us has a reasonable explanation for the silence of 21 million Chinese cell phone accounts???
Gee, you think?!?!?!
Unfortunately it’s not just a joke, multiple backdoors have been found in Lenovo devices, including more since this article, That the DoD is allowed to purchase and use them at all is an outrage.
https://www.techworm.net/2015/08/lenovo-pcs-and-laptops-seem-to-have-a-bios-level-backdoor.html
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