Governments Warned Chinese Cellular Chips Pose Next Biggest Threat

Visitors check a 5G Smart City technology at the China Mobile booth at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 26, 2019. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world's largest communications companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and wearables gadgets like foldable screens and the introduction of the 5G wireless networks. David Ramos/Getty Images

Using data collected in microchips, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could monitor activities all over the world in people’s homes, as well as weapons deployment, according to a report.

The report (pdf), written by British China researcher and former diplomat Charles Parton for Washington-based consultancy OODA, calls on free and open countries to ban Chinese-manufactured Internet of Things (IoT) modules from their supply chains as soon as possible.