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title: "Beware Chinese bearing gifts"
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#  Beware Chinese bearing gifts

 Written by Gwyn Winfield on 19 October 2020.

There have been concerns that Chinese charity hides a desire to start harvesting genetic information from around the world. Nevada was warned not to accept tests from China, via UAE, as there might be backdoors into the data. <https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-technology-dubai-nevada-united-arab-emirates-0755b0ed4a9a750bcac432300ca69275>

This was something that FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ed You, warned us about in the 2017-04 issue.

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