US
politicians has urged Google to end its relationship with the Huawei
on the grounds the Chinese vendor poses a risk to national security.
A
group of five Senators and Representatives in a In a letter to
Google CEO Sundar Pichai,noted the US intelligence community’s
concerns about Huawei and blasted Google’s decision to continue
working with the company even after ending a partnership with the US
military. Google in January teamed up with Huawei to work on
RCS messaging , but recently declined to renew a contract with the
Pentagon to develop artificial intelligence used for drone
strikes.
“While
we regret that Google did not want to continue a long and fruitful
tradition of collaboration between the military and technology
companies, we are even more disappointed that Google apparently is
more willing to support the Chinese Communist Party than the US
military.
In
the letter, the group also warned the US government, which is
already considering a number of actions to ban the use of
equipment from Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies, “will
likely take further [defensive] measures” in the coming months.
Huawei
vehemently denied allegations its equipment is used for spying.
The
letter is the second Google has received from politicians questioning
its relationship with Huawei in recent weeks. Senator Mark Warner
wrote to Google parent Alphabet earlier this month asking for more
information about its data sharing agreement with Chinese
vendors.
Such
political disapproval proved successful in the past: earlier this
year, AT&T and Verizon backed away from deals to
carry Huawei products in the face of political pressure.
Huawei
is also battling security concerns in Australia , as the government
there decides whether or not to shut the company out of the market
for 5G equipment.
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