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The Secret System Behind Every Call You Make Is About to Change Hands
Also, did the Chinese government just hack it?
Through examination of press releases, news articles, historical documents, regulatory filings, and parallel cases of data transfers, my investigation uncovers a disturbing pattern: one which challenges fundamental assumptions about how we protect both critical national security assets and the intimate details of Americans' lives in an era of unchecked M&A activities and private equity consolidation. In 2019, Ericsson was held accountable to what the Department of Justice called a years-long campaign of corruption, agreeing to pay over $1 billion in penalties for maintaining secret slush funds in China, Djibouti, Indonesia, and Vietnam while using intermediaries to bribe government officials across these jurisdictions. Now, similar critical telecommunications infrastructure faces transfer to a private entity actively fighting to weaken federal regulatory authority–creating a disclosure blind spot potentially even more opaque than the current regime which failed to detect this historically-awful breach, and has sought to keep its details and implications under wraps thus far.
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