10-30-15 HONG KONG — One Chinese technology company receives crucial technical guidance from a former People’s Liberation Army rear admiral. Another company developed the electronics on China’s first atomic bomb. A third sells technology to China’s air-to-air missile research academy.
Their ties to the Chinese military run deep, and they all have something else in common: Each Chinese company counts one of America’s tech giants — IBM, Cisco Systems or Microsoft — as a partner.
Such links, which are generally not well publicized, are now at the center of a debate among some in the American defense community, including former United States military officials, analysts and others. While the cross-border partnerships, under which American tech companies share, license or jointly develop advanced technologies with Chinese counterparts, are a growth area for business, security experts are increasingly questioning whether the deals harm United States national security. ...
Last month, during a visit by China’s president, Xi Jinping, to the United States, Cisco also announced a joint venture with Inspur, a server maker that counts China’s air-to-air missile research academy as a client. Microsoft unveiled a partnership with the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, or C.E.T.C., a government-owned defense company overseeing the former military-run research institutes that developed the electronics for China’s first nuclear bomb. Other American tech companies have signed similar deals. Intel took a stake last year in a subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings, China’s emerging microchip national champion. Hewlett-Packard sold a majority stake in its Chinese networking unit to a separate subsidiary of Tsinghua this year, and Dell said it would spend $125 billion in China through 2020.
Inspur, C.E.T.C., Tsinghua and CCore did not respond to requests for comment. Intel, H.P. and Dell declined to comment.
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11-1-17 SHENZHEN, China—U.S. tech giants and Chinese state-backed companies showed off the future of policing in this southern technology hub as they vie for a slice of the world’s biggest surveillance market. https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-wants-to-supply-chinas-surveillance-state-the-west-1509540111
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2-23-17 we made an overview showing where all Europe’s spy tech vendors do business. We counted 235 such companies with headquarters in Europe (an EU member state, Norway, or Switzerland). Many are active in repressive countries:
42 in the United Arab Emirates
40 in China
15 in Turkey
15 in Saudi Arabia https://thecorrespondent.com/6249/the-surveillance-industry-still-sells-to-repressive-regimes-heres-what-europe-can-do-about-it/679999251459-591290a5
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11-20-14 Technology that enables the mass interception of telephone, mobile and internet communications has been adopted by Central Asian state intelligence agencies widely implicated in human rights abuses, according to an investigation by Privacy International, a UK-based privacy charity.
Monitoring centers with "mass surveillance capabilities" have been provided to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by both the Israel branch of US-based Verint Systems and Israel-based NICE Systems. https://news.vice.com/article/us-and-israeli-companies-are-selling-surveillance-technology-to-repressive-regimes-report-finds
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7-6-15 The leaked documents reveal that some of Hacking Team’s clients are Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Many of these countries have been criticized by international human rights organizations for aggressively surveilling their citizens, journalists and political dissidents. http://www.newsweek.com/cybersecurity-firm-supplies-repressive-regimes-spyware-recent-hack-claims-350501
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3-10-17 in a Hampshire exhibition centre the Home Office was quietly holding an event to showcase the cutting-edge covert services and gadgetry offered by dozens of British companies in order to boost exports to customers including repressive regimes. The annual Security & Policing (S&P) exhibition is marketed to both sellers and buyers by the Home Office, the department responsible for MI5, as a “closed” gathering from which the public and media are barred. All visitors must receive official approval prior to entry….
The global market for non-lethal weaponry is estimated to be currently worth £1.3bn, rising to as much as £5.9bn by 2020.
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3-30-11 Top UK spies approved the sale of a software system to Iran that allows the geographic tracking of mobile phones. The system was developed by Surrey-based Creativity Software and sold to MTN Irancell.
In March 2009 the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance, a branch of the GCHQ, was given access to the system. The system was to be sold to MTN Irancell, the second largest mobile phone operator in Iran. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2011-11-30/uks-top-spies-approved-export-of-surveillance-technology-to-iran
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10-23-16 Let’s tap the undersea fiber optic cables for money--worldwide
one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed.
The technology was designed by Endace, a little-known New Zealand company. And the important customer was the British electronic eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.
Dozens of internal documents and emails from Endace, obtained by The Intercept and reported in cooperation with Television New Zealand, reveal the firm’s key role helping governments across the world harvest vast amounts of information on people’s private emails, online chats, social media conversations, and internet browsing histories.
The leaked files, which were provided by a source through SecureDrop, show that Endace listed a Moroccan security agency implicated in torture as one of its customers. They also indicate that the company sold its surveillance gear to more than half a dozen other government agencies, including in the United States, Israel, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Spain, and India. https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/
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Surveillance ops are to become ever less accessible, ever more impenetrable, ever less knowable to you (except in the forms in which they would prefer you to know them). None of their codes or secrets are to be accessed by you on pain of imprisonment. Everything in the government — which once was thought to be “your” government — is increasingly disappearing into a professional universe of secrecy….President Obama offered this reassurance in the wake of the Snowden leaks: the National Security Agency, he insisted, is operating under the supervision of all three branches of the government. In fact the opposite could be said to be true. All three branches, especially in their oversight roles, have been brought within the penumbra of secrecy of the global security state and so effectively coopted or muzzled. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/global-security-surveillance_b_3453265.html
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Pres GWB got US Congress to grant US-based telecoms complete legal immunity.
"It's particularly unusual in the case of the telecoms because you don't really know what you're immunizing," said Louis Fisher, a specialist in constitutional law with the Law Library of the Library of Congress. "You don't know what you're cleaning up." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101041.html
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