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Mission Statement

Tech Integrity Project works to protect the national security and economic competitiveness of the United States by preventing American Big Tech companies from helping our adversaries, particularly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). We educate presidential candidates and the public on the troubling business practices of companies like Microsoft and Apple who have sold out to China—aiding and abetting the CCP to gain access to China’s market and reap profits.


The American people and our hard-fought freedoms are what enabled these companies to become the behemoths they are today. They should put our country first. Instead, Big Tech is helping China with artificial intelligence, giving trade secrets to the CCP, and selling sensitive technologies to Chinese firms who serve China’s military and commit human rights atrocities.


The stakes are too high. Whichever country wins the race to artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies will rule the 21st century. We can’t afford to have American companies threatening our security. We oppose Big Tech business practices that help China, and we support policies that would restrict and prevent this behavior.   

Logan Shine

Executive Director

Logan brings nearly a decade of political and government relations experience which he leverages to provide his clients with invaluable insight into the process.

 

He previously served as policy advisor and legislative liaison for Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Lt. Governor Adam Gregg from 2018-2021. Logan had unparalleled access to the Iowa legislature and worked across party lines to secure bipartisan support for significant tax reform, workforce initiatives, education, broadband, and economic development programs.

 

Following his tenure in the Governor’s office, Logan joined a national company as Vice President of Government Affairs. He gained insight into what corporations look for – results. In this leadership role, Logan was instrumental in positioning the company to successfully compete and receive a multi-million dollar award from the State.

 

Logan earned a law degree from Drake University where he received a specialized certificate in Legislative Practice which has allowed him to build relationships in both the Legislative and Executive branches of government.

Geoffrey Cain

Policy Director

Geoffrey Cain is a technologist and author whose bestselling books cover the dangers of technology gone awry and the importance of protecting democracy.


His recent book, The Perfect Police State, investigated the surveillance industry in China, where AI and other technologies, many developed and delivered by American Big Tech companies, were used to take away 1.8 million people to concentration camps and create the world's most brutal police state. The book was cited for the 2021 Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club for best nonfiction book on international affairs.


As a congressional innovation fellow, he served as a senior technology policy advisor on the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He regularly testifies before Congress on the threats of China's technologies and gives news commentary on CNN, Bloomberg TV, Fox News, and NPR.



Cain holds an MA with distinction in Asian studies from the University of London and a BA from George Washington University.

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TIP to DOJ: When it comes to China, Apple Can’t Have it Both Ways

21 Mar, 2024
Washington, DC – Tech Integrity Project joined a coalition letter , urging the Department of Justice to hold Apple accountable for its abusive App Store practices, including how the tech giant caters to the Chinese Communist Party. The letter, addressed to Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, notes that Apple applies a double standard in managing the App Store, ignoring the concerns of American app developers while enthusiastically complying with diktats from Beijing. As the letter highlights: [W]hile Apple has long discarded the concerns of American app developers, the company has been happy to modify its App Store policies to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. Last year, it was reported that Apple would acquiesce to China’s demands for apps on the App Store to list their Beijing-designated Internet Content Provider (ICP) filing number. In doing so, Apple closed one of Chinese citizens’ only avenues to access, through VPN, apps banned by the Communist regime. It’s worth noting that this came just three years after Apple removed some 39,000 apps on the App Store in China in a single day to appease the government. This only scrapes the surface of Apple’s advocacy on behalf of Beijing: in 2020, the company tried to wield its lobbying might in D.C. to weaken legislation to stop forced labor in the Xinjiang region. " It’s fitting that just as this lawsuit dropped, Tim Cook had been in Shanghai touting more investment in China and boasting Apple’s supply chain there as its most important, ” said Geoffrey Cain, Policy Director at Tech Integrity Project. “As a company that was founded in America and saw monumental growth because of our free system, it is shameful how Apple bends to the demands of the CCP. The hypocrisy is stark. Apple fights virtually every request from an American app developer, citing security and other concerns to maintain its walled garden. But the walls come crumbling down as soon as Beijing calls. Apple simply cannot have it both ways—preaching the virtues of cybersecurity while letting the CCP exert control over its products. To the extent that Apple’s market position enables or exacerbates this behavior, we support the DOJ investigating the company.” You can read the full letter by clicking HERE . ### About Tech Integrity Project: The Tech Integrity Project works to protect the national security and economic competitiveness of the United States by preventing Big Tech companies from aiding America’s adversaries. The organization works to educate presidential candidates and the public about the problematic business activities of U.S. tech companies in China and other adversarial nations, including capital investment, overseas research, transfer of trade secrets, and selling access to sensitive technologies. We’re calling on elected officials and candidates to sign our pledge . To stay updated and join our cause, click HERE .

INTERVIEW: We Need to Do More To Get Big Tech Under the Flag of America.

15 Jan, 2024
TIP Policy Director Geoffrey Cain joined KMZQ's Kevin Wall Radio Show to call on U.S. companies end their love affairs with China. Host Kevin Wall: "Do you trust big tech to do the right thing?" Geoffrey Cain: "Big Tech has shown that it will pursue it's own interests. It will throw America under the bus if it needs to. We need to do more to get big tech under the flag of America. The fact of the matter is if you are company founded and operating here in America, your allegiance should be to American principles, American democracy, and the American way of life. I think these private tech companies going to these overseas authoritarian regimes and trying to set up shop in China compromises them and they need to stay true to their values. They can't work for both sides when both sides are moving apart. They have to chose their allegiance and have to chose their flag. And the authoritarian Chinese government must not be their allegiance. That is dangerous." Geoffrey Cain also discussed how the issue is impacting presidential campaigns Host Kevin Wall: "You mentioned presidential candidates, are they talking enough about China at this point?" Geoffrey Cain: "There has been a lot of good talk about China, the threats of China. I think we have seen more and more candidates get on with this particular topic because they are realizing more and more that China does pose a major threat and there are major US companies helping the Chinese Communist Party. So we do have a pledge that we've asked candidates to sign. So far Governor Ron DeSantis has been the first to sign." "We have been on the campaign trail, talking to campaigns, and people seem receptive. This has become an election issue, our polling shows voters are deeply concerned about this." You can listen to the full interview by clicking HERE , beginning at 8:29 ###
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