The President of the United States Barack Obama criticizes the new technology laws that China wants to implement, and urges the country to change its policy if it wants to continue to have partnerships with the US.
The proposed new settings της κινεζικής κυβέρνησης απαιτούν από τις επιχειρήσεις της technology to create backdoors for the government to access the source code of any operating system or software released in the local market.
China is also asking tech companies to adopt algorithms encryption from China and reveal substantial data of their intellectual property.
The new requirements are determined by a 22 page document adopted at the end of last year. The aim of the new laws is to strengthen cyber security in the critical infrastructures of industries and to guard against terrorism.
In an interview with Reuters, Barack Obama said Beijing's anti-terror laws require technology companies to hand over the encryption keys and install backdoors on their systems, thus giving the Chinese authorities access to their data.
The proposed laws "will force virtually all foreign companies, including US companies, to hand over to Chinese government agencies so that they can spy on and monitor all users of these services," Obama added.
The dispute marks another difference in cyber security between the US and China policy, with their relations still very tense following the ongoing US allegations of Chinese cyber spying and on the other with Snowden's revelations.
Snowden's revelations have shown that the US does not even have to legislate to track user data globally. They simply do so in violation of existing laws.
Legislation in China at least explicitly mentions the target and the pre-requisite of the companies for a co-operation.
True who trusts her Microsoft (Windows), on Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and Google, after all they have seen light of publicity?
Barack Obama's statements to Reuters seem very provocative after all. The audacity of the expansionist tendency of the superpower through Barack Obama goes beyond any logic.
Data protection advocates point out that what China is asking for is similar to what the US is asking for by telephone companies (PDF).
But most worrying about the United States is what they do not ask for, but they get it on their own.
