<div dir="ltr">Given today's list discussion, I thought you'd all find the article below interesting. -- YC<div><br></div><div>*****</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><strong>U.S. tech helps China’s surveillance. </strong>Some of the biggest names in U.S. technology have provided components, financing and know-how to China’s multibillion-dollar surveillance industry.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px">Companies including <strong>Seagate Technology,</strong> <strong>Western Digital</strong>, <strong>Intel</strong> and <strong>Hewlett Packard Enterprise</strong> have nurtured, courted and profited from China’s surveillance industry.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><em>Tracing the supply chain. </em>"Hewlett Packard Enterprise owns 49% of New H3C Technologies Co. Ltd., which provides switches, surveillance network-control systems and cloud computing to Chinese law enforcement. One end customer for its switches is Aksu, a Xinjiang city that conducts broad surveillance of residents in public spaces. Satellite images suggest the city is home to multiple internment camps."</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><em>What they say.</em> The companies say their products can be used in any number of ways, and that convoluted supply chains limit their understanding and control over how their goods are put to use.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><strong>Lawmakers divided over data privacy. </strong>Senate Republicans rebuffed a Democrat bill aimed at guarding consumer-data by giving users more over information collected about them online,   introduced by a group of Senate Democrats aiming to give users more say over online information, signaling that bipartisan negotiations still haven’t produced a compromise that can pass a divided Congress. The latest bill would also impose new regulations on companies to prevent privacy violations. </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/472231-us-tech-companies-behind-much-of-chinas-massive-surveillance-industry">https://thehill.com/policy/technology/472231-us-tech-companies-behind-much-of-chinas-massive-surveillance-industry</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/senate-democrats-reveal-new-copra-digital-privacy-bill.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/senate-democrats-reveal-new-copra-digital-privacy-bill.html</a><br></p></div></div>