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Don’t use Huawei phones, say heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA
The US intelligence community is still worried about Chinese tech giants’
government ties
The heads of six major US intelligence agencies have warned that American
citizens shouldn’t use products and services made by Chinese tech giants
Huawei and ZTE. According to a report from CNBC, the intelligence chiefs
made the recommendation during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on
Tuesday. The group included the heads of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the
director of national intelligence.
During his testimony, FBI Director Chris Wray said the the government was “
deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is
beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values to gain
positions of power inside our telecommunications networks.” He added that
this would provide “the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information
. And it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage.”
These warnings are nothing new. The US intelligence community has long been
wary of Huawei, which was founded by a former engineer in China’s People’s
Liberation Army and has been described by US politicians as “effectively
an arm of the Chinese government.” This caution led to a ban on Huawei
bidding for US government contracts in 2014, and it’s now causing problems
for the company’s push into consumer electronics.
Although Huawei started life as a telecoms firm, creating hardware for
communications infrastructure, the company’s smartphones have proved
incredibly successful in recent years. Last September, it even surpassed
Apple as the world’s second biggest smartphone maker, behind Samsung.
But the company has never been able to make inroads in the lucrative
American market, a failure which is in part due to hostility from the US
government. Last month, Huawei planned to launch its new Mate 10 Pro
flagship in the US through AT&T, but the carrier pulled out of the deal at
the last minute, reportedly due to political pressure. The decision prompted
Huawei’s CEO Richard Yu to go off-script during a speech at CES,
describing the move as a “big loss” for the company, but a bigger loss for
consumers.
Huawei is still trying to sell the Mate 10 Pro unlocked in the US, but this
effort seems to have pushed the company to desperate measures — including
getting users to write fake reviews for the handset.
US lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would ban government
employees from using Huawei and ZTE phones altogether. During Tuesday’s
hearing, Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, said: “The focus of my concern today is China, and
specifically Chinese telecoms like Huawei and ZTE, that are widely
understood to have extraordinary ties to the Chinese government.”
In response to these comments, a spokesperson for Huawei told CNBC: ”Huawei
is aware of a range of U.S. government activities seemingly aimed at
inhibiting Huawei’s business in the U.S. market. Huawei is trusted by
governments and customers in 170 countries worldwide and poses no greater
cybersecurity risk than any ICT vendor, sharing as we do common global
supply chains and production capabilities.”
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