Letter to BS: Data privacy is a big concern with Chinese tech firms

This refers to the article “Huawei to ByteDance: Big tech firms in a spot as China riles US, India” (July 27). The entrepreneurial spirit that a Chinese start-up founder talks of in the article is possible in a protected, competition-free market like China. For years, China has kept big US tech companies like Google and Facebook away through its firewall policies.

With Chinese tech firms, privacy is a big concern. It is not that the concern is less with the tech giants of other countries, but then they are not government puppets. It is no secret that the Chinese government has