Biden admin probes China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks
Business StandardAccording to its website, China Telecom has 8 American Points of Presence that sit at internet exchange points, which allow large-scale networks to connect to each other and share routing information. The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through their US cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing, three sources familiar with the matter said. In cases where China Telecom's PoPs reside in internet exchange points, the company "can potentially access and/or manipulate data where it is on the preferred path for US customer traffic," the FCC said in April. Commerce investigators are also probing the companies' US cloud offerings, the focus of the 2020 referral from the Justice Department on China Mobile, China Telecom and Alibaba that prompted the investigations, the people said.
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