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US tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong’s security law
- Thursday | 9th July, 2020
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – US tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong’s security law will reshape their businesses, with their suspension of processing government requests for user data a stop-gap measure as they weigh options, people close to the industry say. “These companies have to totally reassess the liability of having a presence in Hong Kong,” Charles Mok, a legislator who represents the technology industry in Hong Kong, told Reuters. Facebook, which started operating in Hong Kong in 2010, last year opened a big new office in the city. “It’s a global law … if they comply with national security law in Hong Kong then there is the problem that they may violate laws in other countries,” said Francis Fong Po-kiu, honorary president of Hong Kong’s Information Technology Federation. New York-based fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui has regularly voiced support for Hong Kong protesters in his videos.
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