{"id":72456,"date":"2025-04-11T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/senate-hears-meta-dangled-us-data-in-bid-to-enter-china-the-register\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T03:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:34:04","slug":"senate-hears-meta-dangled-us-data-in-bid-to-enter-china-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/senate-hears-meta-dangled-us-data-in-bid-to-enter-china-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate hears Meta dangled US data in bid to enter China \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fb’s former director of world public coverage informed a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was keen to do virtually something to get the social community into China – together with, she alleged, providing up People’ knowledge.<\/p>\n

Speaking to<\/a> the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism Wednesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta misled the general public about its operations in China and was so desirous to entry the nation’s 1.4 billion residents that its company management agreed to supply the Chinese language Communist Occasion with entry to person knowledge, together with that of People.<\/p>\n

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Fb’s secret mission to get into China was known as ‘Mission Aldrin’ and was restricted to need-to-know employees<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Fb\u2019s secret mission to get into China was known as ‘Mission Aldrin’ and was restricted to need-to-know employees. There was no bridge too far. Meta constructed a bodily pipeline connecting the US and China,” she told<\/a> [PDF] senators in written testimony.<\/p>\n

The point out of a \u201cbodily pipeline\u201d is a reference to a submarine cable that Google and Meta planned<\/a> to construct between Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Following stress from US nationwide safety companies, who fearful that China\u2019s management of Hong Kong represented a safety danger, the route of the cable was changed<\/a> and now connects to Taiwan and the Philippines as a substitute.<\/p>\n

“Meta executives ignored warnings that this would supply backdoor entry to the Chinese language Communist Occasion, permitting them to intercept the non-public knowledge and personal messages of Americans,\u201d Wynn-Williams testified. \u201cThe one motive China doesn’t at present have entry to US person knowledge by way of this pipeline is as a result of Congress stepped in.”<\/p>\n

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