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Microsoft's 'tight' ties to China under scrutiny ahead of potential TikTok purchase
By Hollie McKay Published 1 day ago As trade talks between the United States and China continue to crumble amid the global coronavirus pandemic, which emanated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the issue of data-stealing has surfaced as a point of contention for the Trump administration. At the top of the flashpoint pile is the White House’s push for either an all-out ban or the forced sale of TikTok -- the seemingly innocuous dance video app owned by the Beijing-based ByteDance and used by more than 100 million Americans -- that has been painted by the White House as a serious national and cybersecurity threat. While TikTok is preparing to launch a legal challenge in response to Trump’s executive order -- which gave the parent company 90 days to divest its U.S. operations -- Microsoft is still leading the charge to purchase the app. But it is far from smooth sailing, as some experts have expressed concern that the Bill Gates-founded tech conglomerate’s long and tight relationship with Beijing may do little to make Americans’ personal information safer. “Microsoft's ties in China is as tight as it gets in terms of an American tech company's presence and influence in China,” Nina Xiang, an expert of Chinese technology and venture capital, and founder of the Hong Kong-based artificial intelligence monitoring firm China Money Network, told Fox News. Cut! Moreover, the company last year came under scrutiny for its work with a Chinese military-operated university. Three papers published between March and November 2019 were co-written by academics from both the Microsoft Research Asia and those connected to China’s National University of Defense Technology, which is domineered by China’s leading military wing, the Central Military Commission. The Financial Times pointed out that one of the papers depicted a new AI modality “to recreate detailed environmental maps by analyzing human faces, which experts say could have clear applications for surveillance and censorship.” Furthermore, Microsoft enables the CCP to censor Bing, its search engine in China, so that it can continue to operate in the large market. By contrast, Google yanked its search engine a decade ago over censorship woes and in ensuing years has continued to pull various search and cloud efforts -- including the development of potential cloud services for China. Bing is currently the only international search engine with a slice of the market share in the country. Continued: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/microso...iktok-purchase |
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