How do American companies fight any outside competitor? Another goal
As soon as a non-American product achieves positive numbers and begins to rise in the digital world, it is confronted with accusations from the United States, although the same accusations have been prolonged and proven in earlier times by American companies, according to experts.
The most recent story in this context, the accusations made by a US news report about the "Tutuk" application of conversations and voice and video calls.
The report relied on many sources, most of them unknown, which raises question marks about it, while "Google" and "Apple" were quick to delete the application from their stores.
As for what is surprising about it, is that the software that is used in the application of "Tutuk" is the same software applied in other similar platforms such as "WhatsApp" and others, which confirms that the issue is never related to the protection of users and their privacy.
Commenting on the case, the developer company, "Tutuk", issued a statement denying the allegations, considering them merely "malicious rumors" targeting the application that is successful.
The company said it devoted its efforts towards "developing a great application that suits the desires of users, who are constantly growing," noting that it "ignored the fuss that attempts to make publishers of misinformation for the millions of users who trust the company."
She added that "raising allegations of espionage seeks to discredit the application and put it at risk."
And the application "Totok" achieved great success in just two months since its launch, as the number of its users reached 50 million distributed in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, and it has become one of the most downloaded social applications on smart phone application stores.
In an interview with Sky News Arabia, IT security expert Omar Sami said that "American companies have a monopoly of about 90 percent of Internet technology, telephones and information," stressing that they are "desperate to maintain this monopoly."
Sami added, "This gives it digital control over the world. This is evident, for example, in the dominance of Google on search engines," Facebook "on communication networks, and" WhatsApp "on instant messaging applications.
Sami said, "The United States is fighting the development of any reserve programs even if it is Western, and the matter becomes more fierce if the applications are developed in another country.
The technical expert pointed out that the deletion of "Google" and "Apple" to the application of "Tutuq", is part of the American technology companies fighting against its competing counterpart, which "if it is not able to acquire it, faces it in other ways."
On the issue of privacy, Sami said, the first fingers point to US companies, such as Google, who have been lured by tens of millions to violate user privacy.
Facebook, the world's largest social network, was also exposed to a resounding scandal known as the "Cambridge Analytica", when it revealed in early 2018 that 87 million users on the Blue website had been leaked to a British political consulting company.
This scandal came after a series of other scandals regarding the spread of false news on the American platform, interference in the elections and violation of privacy.
Sami cited the American war that hit the Chinese technology giant "Huawei", where he faced the ban in the United States under the pretext of using its equipment for espionage purposes, but the Chinese company denied this, and said that the ban comes within the framework of the Sino-American trade war.
The expert stresses that "the security threat threat and data privacy have become an argument for hitting other companies and monopolizing the global technology market, especially as it is repeated with every non-American competitor, and the accusation will be the United States."
