The state of Maine’s new laws barring government officials from using or purchasing Chinese hardware and other technologies is officially in effect.
The new requirements from the State of Maine Office of Information Technology (Maine IT), passed this year with bipartisan support from the state legislature, went into effect last week.
The office published the first version of a list of information technology products, companies, and websites originating in foreign adversary nations, such as China, from which Maine will no purchase goods or services.
Prohibited Technologies List:
- Dahua Technology Company
- Huawei Technologies Company
- Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company
- Hytera Communications Corporation
- SZ DJI Technology Company
- ZTE Corporation
- China Mobile International USA Inc.
- China Telecom (Americas) Corp.
- Pacific Networks Corp and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC
- China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited
- AO Kaspersky LabKaspersky Lab, Inc.
- TikTok, or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited, or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited
Maine’s New Anti-China Cybersecurity Law Takes Effect
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