US moves to boost crackdown on China Telecom’s unit over data privacy

The US Commerce Department is moving to further crack down on China Telecom’s US unit over concerns it could exploit access to American data through their US cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing, a source told Reuters.

The source confirmed a New York Times report that the department last week sent China Telecom Americas a preliminary determination that its presence in US networks and cloud services poses US national security risks and gave the company 30 days to respond.