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Sept. 19, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:12
Florida AG Uthmeier on Investigating Companies for Sharing Data with Beijing
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We're going to be investigating a lot of companies.
What we've come to realize is that uh the CCP or you know an entity that's clearly tied to the CCP or the Chinese military uh is obtaining the data of Americans uh through many companies out there that they either own or there's a parent company that is sharing that data.
Uh so in Florida, the most recent investigation we launched was into a company, Lorex.
Uh they make in home or in business cameras, everything from baby cams to nanny cams, doorbell cameras.
I mean, they they they capture the imagery of everything people are doing at home, and consumers do not know about it.
Uh that then gets handed over, and and you know, Lord knows what happens then.
So at the least, consumers should be put on notice by these companies that their data is being handed to one of our, you know, if not our greatest adversary, uh, which is a a huge national security risk.
Uh, but that data probably should not legally be allowed to leave the United States in the first place.
So we first, you know, came into um knowledge that healthcare tracking data, uh, devices that you know that measure your vitals and hospitals were handing over data to the CCP.
Now we've heard about Lorex, there's several other companies we're looking at, and at the end of the day, we want to combat all of it, because I think it's dangerous.
A lot of people don't know that in China they're they have something called the national intelligence law, and the national intelligence law basically requires individuals and companies that are under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party, which is everybody in the country or outside the country that's from the country.
They're they're required to spy, provide data.
Mm-hmm.
Essentially the gamut of things, right and at the same time it's actually illegal for them to disclose that they're doing so.
Right?
So this there's there's this bizarre legal dimension.
I was thinking you would think they might hide, because they could do all this with kind of hiding it, but they actually made it the law over there.
Right.
Yeah, I I think they have every intention in the world to gather as much information as possible.
The leaders of our country, I think they're aware of some of it.
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