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Swedish Technology Company Cuts Business Ties With Hong Kong
//Stockholm-based Micro Systemation AB, a Swedish firm that supplies law enforcement and government agencies with technology to extract data from mobile phones, said it has pulled its business from Hong Kong following the White House’s executive order to strip Hong Kong of its special trading status on 14 July.
//The company’s technology was used by Hong Kong authorities to examine the phone contents of pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong after he was arrested in October last year, according to a police report. The company was originally in line for additional business from the Hong Kong government.
//The company specifically stated in an email that they would no longer “supply solutions” to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force nor any other government agencies as the White House’s executive order impacts the company’s legal entity and presence in the USA.
//The company has also pulled its business from China which started in 2013 earlier in 2020 due to changes in “regulatory regimes and restrictions” related to export control laws.
//Another firm whose technology was identified in the Joshua Wong case as being used by Hong Kong authorities, Israel-based Cellebite, is facing its own kind of pressure brought by the new national security law which restricts the many types of freedom associated with Western democracies in Hong Kong.
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Swedish Technology Company Cuts Business Ties With Hong Kong
//Stockholm-based Micro Systemation AB, a Swedish firm that supplies law enforcement and government agencies with technology to extract data from mobile phones, said it has pulled its business from Hong Kong following the White House’s executive order to strip Hong Kong of its special trading status on 14 July.
//The company’s technology was used by Hong Kong authorities to examine the phone contents of pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong after he was arrested in October last year, according to a police report. The company was originally in line for additional business from the Hong Kong government.
//The company specifically stated in an email that they would no longer “supply solutions” to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force nor any other government agencies as the White House’s executive order impacts the company’s legal entity and presence in the USA.
//The company has also pulled its business from China which started in 2013 earlier in 2020 due to changes in “regulatory regimes and restrictions” related to export control laws.
//Another firm whose technology was identified in the Joshua Wong case as being used by Hong Kong authorities, Israel-based Cellebite, is facing its own kind of pressure brought by the new national security law which restricts the many types of freedom associated with Western democracies in Hong Kong.
Full Article: Bloomberg
https://bloom.bg/36aO7AY
#nationalsecuritylaw #joshuawong #cybersecurity #MSAB
Bloomberg
Swedish Technology Company Cuts Business Ties With Hong Kong
A Swedish firm that supplies law enforcement and government agencies with technology to extract data from mobile phones said it has pulled its business from Hong Kong.