Category: Tech Competition

1 Billion People’s Personal Data Hacked From Shanghai Police; FCC’s Carr on TikTok and US Data Security

July 8, 2022
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Shanghai police get hacked, and 1 billion people’s personal information is being sold online. What do we make of this? Usually, it’s the Chinese regime that steals data and trade secrets, like with TikTok recently. What happens if it is on the receiving end? Meanwhile, FBI Director Christopher Wray once again calls China the top…

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China Exerting Growing Influence Over Global Tech Standards, UK Lawmakers Warn

July 8, 2022
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The Chinese regime and other malign actors are trying to exert their influence over global technological standards, but the UK government’s response has been “incoherent and muted,” a committee of MPs has warned. In its latest report published on July 8, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in the House of Commons said that malign actors…

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Meta Sues US Subsidiary of Chinese Company for Scraping User Data

July 7, 2022
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Meta is suing the U.S.-based subsidiary of a Chinese tech firm and one individual, which it accused of illegally scraping data from Facebook and Instagram. “Today, we’ve filed separate actions in federal court against Octopus and Defendant Ekrem Ateş for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram,” a Meta representative said in a press statement on…

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Chinese Communist Party Threat Is ‘Massive’: FBI and MI5 Directors

July 6, 2022
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Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order. “The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum. “It’s covertly applying pressure across the…

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NASA Administrator Accuses China of Planning to Take Over the Moon

July 6, 2022
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has warned that China is using its space program to attempt to take over the moon, a claim the Chinese regime denies. Nelson told German outlet Bild on July 2, “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now and you stay out.”…

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China Rebuts Weaponization of Space Program Claim by NASA Administrator

July 6, 2022
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China has denied that it is attempting to take over the moon via its space program, a concern expressed by NASA administrator Bill Nelson in a recent interview. Nelson told German outlet Bild on July 2, “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now and you…

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Russian Laser Scientist Dies 2 Days After Arrest for State Treason With China

July 3, 2022
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A Russian scientist who was arrested in Siberia last week on suspicion of state treason and flown to Moscow despite suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer has died, lawyers and a family member said on Sunday. Physicist Dmitry Kolker, 54, had been taken from his hospital bed, where he was being fed through a tube, and bundled onto…

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Second Russian Scientist From Siberian City Detained on Treason Charges With China: TASS

July 3, 2022
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MOSCOW—Russia has detained a second scientist in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on suspicion of state treason in the space of a few days, the TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the investigation. Anatoly Maslov, a chief scientist at an institute of theoretical and applied mechanics in Novosibirsk, a city around 2,800…

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Beijing Angry Over US News Report on Close Encounter Between US and Chinese Satellites

July 1, 2022
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News Analysis A U.S. news publication revealed an “in-orbit game of cat and mouse” between a U.S. surveillance satellite and two new Chinese satellites in geostationary orbit, angering Beijing. In response, China’s state-run media published a commentary on June 30 that slandered the United States, accusing it of “threatening [the] Chinese satellites’ safety.” SpaceNews reported…

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Beijing Reacts to US Report on Close Encounter Between US and Chinese Satellites

July 1, 2022
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News Analysis A U.S. news publication revealed an “in-orbit game of cat and mouse” between a U.S. surveillance satellite and two new Chinese satellites in geostationary orbit. In response, China’s state-run media published a commentary on June 30 that slandered the United States, accusing it of “threatening [the] Chinese satellites’ safety.” SpaceNews reported on June…

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