Huawei have reportedly been blocked from using Gmail and Maps by Google as the China spying row deepens
the company's popular apps on their phones, and will not have access to security updates.
Several countries, including the UK, have raised concerns that Huawei equipment could be used by China for surveillance. But if and when Android decide to make changes to its operating system, current Huawei phone owners will not be able to access the updateA warning from the head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service also singled out the Chinese company as a potential security risk.Last Wednesday, as part of the ongoing US-China trade wars, Huawei was added to a list of companies that are banned from acquiring technology from US firms without government approval.
Meanwhile, retired brigadier general Robert Spalding, the former senior director for strategy at the National Security Council, wrote in the Daily Telegraph that the UK "must recognise" the strength of US feeling on Huawei.
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