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The Internet of future must be based on Western values, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, regarding the US ban on China’s Huawei tech giant over security concerns
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – ) The Internet of future must be based on Western values, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, regarding the US ban on China’s Huawei tech giant over security concerns.
Earlier in May, the United States added Huawei, one of the major players in developing equipment for the 5G technology, which is expected to offer faster and stabler Internet connection, to a trade black list. Several US companies have already suspended business ties with Huawei, including Google, whose Android operating system is currently used by Huawei mobile phones.
“We have been pretty clear about how we view the risk connected to Huawei and 5G infrastructure. The Internet of future must have Western values embedded within it,” Pompeo said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
The US secretary of state added that the United States would continue to educate its partners about potential risks linked to information networks.
“[The mission is] that we talk to them plainly and openly.
They’ll make their own sovereign decisions,” Pompeo said.
The US secretary of state added that it did not seem possible, in case of Huawei, to “mitigate those [risks] anywhere inside of a 5G network and continue to view that as a trusted network.” Pompeo explained that the United States may have to review the way it shares information with its allies, including private citizen data or national security information, if it doubted the networks through which the data travels.
The European Commission in March asked each EU member state to assess risks linked to 5G networks by the end of June. Member states are expected to update their security regulations, including obligations on suppliers and regulators. The commission said that the member states had the right to ban companies from their markets if they saw them as a security risk, but stopped short of introducing an EU-wide ban on any firms.
Huawei has already challenged the earlier US policy on banning the company’s equipment in government agencies