https://www.cyberscoop.com/chinese-telecommunications-national-security-team-telecom-senate/
By Shannon Vavra
CYBERSCOOP
June 9, 2020
For decades, the U.S. government’s process for reviewing the cybersecurity
risks of Chinese telecommunications companies operating in the U.S. has been so
haphazard that it has “endangered our national security,” a bipartisan Senate
review released Tuesday found.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said that the group
responsible for these kinds of reviews, made up of national security officials
from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice, largely failed
to rein in Chinese telecommunications companies because of an “informal”
process, insufficient resourcing, and a lack of statutory authority.
Federal Communications Commission commissioners have likened the group’s review
to an “inextricable black hole,” the report said.
As a result of minimal oversight from the group, known as “Team Telecom,”
Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies have been able to operate with
relative impunity, even as concerns have mounted that Chinese state-owned
companies could be enabling espionage backed by the Chinese government within
the U.S.
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