The chairman of the ‘Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party’ John Moolenar, and the ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi have formally requested the Commerce Department and other agencies to investigate Chinese-made networking devices, particularly those made by TP-Link, regarding the potential cybersecurity risk they pose due to their unusual degree of vulnerabilities and other reasons mentioned in the letter.
The other reason, as mentioned in the letter, is the company’s compliance requirement with the Chinese government as per their law. The congressmen said,” Companies like TP-Link are required to provide data to the PRC (People’s Republic of China) government and otherwise comply with the demands of its national security apparatus.”
The members jointly requested that the investigation be completed by the end of August. Hence, once the investigation is complete, we should receive information from the Department of Commerce and its actions against any potential threat if warranted.