[liberationtech] U.S. tech helps China’s surveillance / Dems push for privacy

[Yosem Companys]

Given today's list discussion, I thought you'd all find the article below
interesting. -- YC

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*U.S. tech helps China’s surveillance. *Some of the biggest names in U.S.
technology have provided components, financing and know-how to China’s
multibillion-dollar surveillance industry.

Companies including *Seagate Technology,* *Western Digital*, *Intel*
and *Hewlett
Packard Enterprise* have nurtured, courted and profited from China’s
surveillance industry.

*Tracing the supply chain. *"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."

*What they say.* 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.

*Lawmakers divided over data privacy. *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.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/472231-us-tech-companies-behind-much-of-chinas-massive-surveillance-industry

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/senate-democrats-reveal-new-copra-digital-privacy-bill.html
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