The Australian Defence Department has quietly extended a contract with a Chinese-owned company to continue storing data in its Sydney facilities, despite a push to end the arrangement by 2020.However, there were concerns when a Chinese owned company purchased 49 per cent of the businessFor a decade sensitive military files have been stored by Global Switch, but concerns were raised four years ago when a Chinese consortium bought half of its British parent company.
and that Defence would begin to shift its data back to a government-owned hub once the contract expired"They've made a decision to get their data out of that data centre and that's an entirely appropriate decision, and they'll get that done I understand by 2020," Mr Morrison told reporters at the time.
"Defence has migrated part of its holdings to an alternative data centre. This was completed in mid-2020." "We will ask a question this week in Parliament with notice, and you would not want to be lying in that question Minister, you would not want to be lying in that question," he warned.
Defence knows the media is just misleading people
This should have been a scandal *first time around. I guess it saves them the trouble of hacking us.
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A Chinese or British company what's really the difference? We're Increasinlgy treating China like an enemy these days. No wonder they don't want to buy our stuff.
Defence storing sensitive data on a Chinese owned company - we may as well employ CCP spies in our R&D, think tanks and the defence force logistics and planning section. Just tell them our secrets - save some time. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID
Moving SarahFerguson into XHNews Beijing. Cost!, day we move empiric out. More than $200 million? Chinese reliability is more secure, than ScottMorrisonMP accountability.? Militaries % of our GDP is another MPSWestminster undertable payment?. JacquiLambie canberratimes
WTF !!! This has got to be a joke. Where’s the leadership Scotty ? Dutton ? Paine? WTF !!! Your making us look stupid. It’s bad enough they control our northern most port. For fuck sake Australian Defence get your shit in a pile.