Lenovo agrees to implement the loopholes in the computers and smartphones at the request of the government

At the conference Transform Lenovo Lenovo among other things, has announced a global strategic partnership with NetApp.

Lenovo and NetApp announced the creation of a new joint venture in China, which will supply localized and designed for the needs of the Chinese market of storage and data management.

The journalists of The Inquirer suspected that such specialization for China is to implement the loopholes at the request of the Chinese government on computers and gadgets. They were able to talk about it with Peter Hortensius (Peter Hortensius), technical Director and head of business strategy of Lenovo in the data center.

According to Hortensius, Lenovo is an international company, but she respects local traditions and norms. If the Chinese government will require to implement backdoors for the company’s products on an international scale, she will refuse. If the Chinese government will require loopholes for Lenovo products in China, “all international companies in China doing the same thing.”

He said: “We comply with local laws. If local laws require not to put backdoors, we’re not going to do. And we don’t just fulfill the law, we follow the ethics and spirit of the laws.” Many adjectives, however, he said: “in addition, if there are countries that want to have access, and they are actually more than just China, you provide what they ask”.


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