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Obama criticises China's mandatory backdoor tech import rules
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/05/obama_criticises_china_tech_rules_backdoor_terrorism/US prez Barack Obama has criticised China's new tech rules, urging the country to reverse the policy if it wants a business-as-usual situation with the US to continue.
As previously reported, proposed new regulations from the Chinese government would require technology firms to create backdoors and provide source code to the Chinese government before technology sales within China would be authorised.
China is also asking that tech companies adopt Chinese encryption algorithms and disclose elements of their intellectual property.
The new requirements, laid out in a 22-page document approved late last year, are supposedly geared towards strengthening the cyber security of critical Chinese industries and guarding against terrorism.
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