Report: Decades of Lax Oversight Allow Chinese Telecoms to Conduct Espionage in U.S. – IOTW Report

Report: Decades of Lax Oversight Allow Chinese Telecoms to Conduct Espionage in U.S.

WFB: Chinese state-owned telecommunications firms are operating with little U.S. oversight and using their access in America to conduct espionage operations on behalf of the Communist Party, putting the personal information of millions of Americans at risk, according to a new congressional report.

Multiple Chinese telecom firms have operated in the United States with “little-to-no oversight” from government agencies for the past 20 years, the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations disclosed on Tuesday in a new report. These companies are permitted near-total penetration of American communications networks and have used this access to collect data on millions of Americans, including military members and those working in sensitive government posts.

Only in the past year has the federal government begun to take a closer look at these firms, including China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and ComNet—all Communist Party-owned firms that have been operating with impunity since the early 2000s. The Senate’s yearlong investigation concluded that the Federal Communications Commission failed to perform proper oversight on these companies, allowing them to collect data on scores of Americans. With the Chinese government exerting total control over these companies, it is likely these data are being used for nefarious purposes, the report warns. read more

13 Comments on Report: Decades of Lax Oversight Allow Chinese Telecoms to Conduct Espionage in U.S.

  1. Our representatives have watched unconcerned for years as this has been going on and people like Miss Lindsey just beat out the other primary contestants. Apparently S. Carolina thinks he’s been doing a great job.
    It’s a disgrace what has been and continues to go on.

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  2. Only in the past year has the federal government begun to take a closer look at these firms, including China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and ComNet — all Communist Party-owned firms…

    Time for a few renames:

    — China Telecommie Americas
    — China Unicommie Americas
    — ChiComNet

    …the [FCC] failed to perform proper oversight on these companies, allowing them to collect data on scores of Americans.

    Scores? SCORES?! More like scores of millions.

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  3. In the 90’s China was lucky if their missles landed on the right continent. One day Bubba’s pal Bernie Schwartz, Chairman of Loral Space, asks Clinton for a waiver to sell the Chicoms guidance technology (in exchange for significant campaign cash) and the rest is history.

    But BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!!!

    Fucking dullards.

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  4. First time I’ve heard Treason called “lax oversight.”

    “In 1936 the German Armed Forces grew into the greatest fighting machine in the History of the World because of ‘lax oversight’ by the signatories of Versailles.”
    How many ways are there to spell “BULLSHIT?”
    “Lax oversight” is “willful neglect.”

    izlamo delenda est …

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