Google Urged To Reconsider Partnership With Huawei By U.S Lawmakers

Huawei's plans for global domination have been foiled past the US regime, but information technology seems they're non done with their intervention just yet. US lawmakers, both from the Senate and the House, take now sent a letter to Google to reconsider its partnership with Huawei.

Pointing to Google's contempo movement to break ties with the Pentagon and not offer its AI tools for a drone project, the lawmakers in the letter say that, "while nosotros regret that Google did not want to continue a long and fruitful tradition of collaboration between the military and engineering science companies, we are even more than disappointed that Google apparently is more willing to back up the Chinese Communist Party than the U.Due south. armed forces."

This letter of the alphabet is the latest attack against the Chinese phone maker, who along with ZTE, has been facing government criticism and prospects of a ban in the Us. The letter sent to the tech giant is signed by a drove of lawmakers, including Republican senators Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, along with many Congress members – Mike Conway, Liz Cheney, and Dutch Ruppersberger.

The letter further continues to add that the partnership between Google and Huawei could pose to exist a huge threat to US national security and American consumers. The lawmakers have urged Google to intermission all ties with the Chinese phone maker. Ane of the things that US is worried well-nigh is Huawei bold a leadership position in the market with its 5G technology.

In response to the alphabetic character, Google spokesperson Andrea Faville in a statement to Reuters said that,

Like many U.S. companies, nosotros take agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special admission to Google user data equally part of these agreements, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for user data.

This means Google volition not break ties with Huawei anytime shortly, notwithstanding fears remain well-nigh further regime sanctions which may touch Huawei's Android smartphones – for which the company has reportedly started working on its own OS.