US President Joe Biden is concerned that China will use car exports to the US to spy on Americans – and worries about the activities of Chinese cars abroad. can be turned off.

Biden administration launches investigation into car manufacturers from “countries of concern” In White House Report Only China is explicitly mentioned.

“These cars are connected to our phones, navigation systems, critical infrastructure and the companies that built them,” the White House statement said. “Cars from China can collect sensitive data about our citizens and our infrastructure and send it back to China.”

US investigates cyber risk from Chinese carmakers

The most successful Chinese automaker is BYD. Last year, the company came close to Tesla in sales of all-electric cars.

But BYD says it has no plans to enter the US market at the moment. The company has already landed in neighboring Mexico.

“We have no plans to come to the U.S.,” BYD Vice President Stella Li said this week Yahoo Finance . “It’s an interesting, but very complex market.”

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday that the U.S. wants to be proactive in investigating cyber risks from Chinese cars. “Imagine thousands of Chinese vehicles on American roads that could be immediately taken out by someone in Beijing,” he told the news outlet. AP.

“It doesn’t take much imagination to imagine how a country like China with access to this kind of information on a large scale could pose a serious risk to the national security and privacy of American citizens,” Raimondo said.

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