is so controversial, the company was founded in china about 30 years ago when cell phone use boomed the company moved to capture the market share by offering cheaper versions of cell phones and then later smartphones. the problem is its coziness to the chinese government. back in january the u.s. justice department charged the company with charges involving theft of trade secrets, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice. it alleged that beginning in 2012, the company stole trade secrets from u.s. carrier t-mobile. now the interesting thing about this is that huawei soon moved out of the cell phone not out of the cell phone business but beyond the cell phone business into making equipment that communication companies cell phone providers rural, wireless providers require in order to provide their services. in february intelligence chiefs including the directors of the fbi, cia, and nsa voiced concerns about the company s ties to the chinese government. in their testimony to congress, t
and regardless of who he s scared of, he s going to go to jail for a long time. congressman, i got one more for you and it s about blocked calls. it s about blocked calls that chairman schiff has been talking about. you ve talked about it on this show before. what are the questions, what s the information you re seeking and who should be worried about those calls getting unblocked? again, nicolle, it all goes to candidate trump s knowledge. did he know these efforts were taking place on his behalf and if he did, why didn t he stop it? was it because he welcomed it? so my fear, nicolle, is we know that donald trump junior took a call from russia where dirt was offered and they wanted to set up a meeting. then he talked to this blocked number and then called back to russia. we know that candidate trump has a blocked number. my biggest fear, though, is that because the republicans blocked us from obtaining this, is that in the orderly course of business, that they may have been destro
impactioning timpacting the most? this will make it more difficult for law enforcement to be able to on abtain what we wo call noncontent information, location information, other types of information about cell phone use that does not include content. to date, that sort of information, those records have been relatively easy for law enforcement to obtain because a warrant was not required. with this decision, a warrant will be required in more cases than currently is. greg, thank you much for that. i want to bring in jolene kent because some folks who are watching this of course involve these tech companies that work with cell phones and use these cell phones and explain a little bit more about lie this matters more broadly. well, this certainly is going to be a signal to the tech community when it comes to data collection in general. this specific case decided by the supreme court, of course, deals with location data as it relates to cell phone providers. but, of course, in the
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