President Trump has said that Huawei is a threat to the US military because of their alleged ties with Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation Army but he'll never confess how deeply Google, Amazon, Facebook etc are integrated with the US intelligence agencies.

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In 2013, Edward Snowden, an employee of National Security Agency, revealed that the US govt was running a vast Internet surveillance program and tapping every major Silicon Valley platform and company—Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon including mobile games like Angry Birds.

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The most astonishing program revealed by Snowden’s disclosures is called PRISM, which involves a sophisticated on-demand data tap housed within the datacenters of the biggest and most respected names in Silicon Valley: Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.

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These devices allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to extract whatever the agency requires, including emails, attachments, chats, address books, files, photographs, audio files, search activity, and mobile phone location history.

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Google, Amazon, Microsoft have been assisting NSA in surveillance programs and have been supplying technology to develop weapons. Following are few examples:

1. In 2008 Google won the contract to run the servers and search technology that powered the CIA’s Intellipedia,

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an intelligence database modeled after Wikipedia that was collaboratively edited by the NSA, CIA, FBI, and other federal agencies. Not long after that, Google contracted with the US Army to equip fifty thousand soldiers with a customized suite of mobile Google services.

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2. In 2007, Google partnered with Lockheed Martin to design a visual intelligence system for the NGA that displayed US military bases in Iraq and marked out Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad.

3. In 2010, Google won a no-bid exclusive $27 million contract to...

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..provide the NGA with “geospatial visualization services,” effectively making the Internet giant the “eyes” of America’s defense and intelligence apparatus.

4. In 2010, Google entered into a secretive agreement with the National Security Agency.

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“According to officials who were privy to details of Google’s arrangements with NSA, company agreed to provide information about traffic on its networks in exchange for intelligence from NSA about what it knew of foreign hackers,” wrote Shane Harris in War, a history of warfare.

5. Google's military work, reveals that it has been selling Google Search, Google Earth, and Google Enterprise (now known as G Suite) products to just about every major US military and intelligence agency: navy, army, air force, Coast Guard, DARPA, NSA, FBI, DEA, CIA, NGA...

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..and State Department. Sometimes Google sells directly to the govt, but it also works with established contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), a California-based intelligence mega-contractor.

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6. Amazon runs cloud computing and storage services for the CIA. The initial contract, signed in 2013, was worth $600 million and was later expanded to include the NSA and a dozen other US intelligence agencies.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos used his wealth to launch Blue Origin, a missile company that partners with Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

7. Facebook too has links with military. Its secretive “Building 8” research division is involved in everything from artificial intelligence..

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...to drone-based wireless Internet networks. Facebook is betting big on virtual reality as the user interface of the future. The Pentagon is, too. According to reports, Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality headset has already been integrated into DARPA’s Plan X.

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Plan X is a $110 million project to build an immersive, fully virtual reality environment to fight cyberwars. In 2016, DARPA announced that Plan X would be transitioned to operational use by the Pentagon’s Cyber Command within a year.

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8. In 2008, Google launched a private spy satellite called GeoEye-1 in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. It bought Boston Dynamics, a DARPA-seeded robotics company that made experimental robotic pack mules for the military.

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9. Google has invested $100 million in CrowdStrike, a major military and intelligence cyber defense contractor that, among other things, led the investigation into the alleged 2016 Russian government hacks of the Democratic National Committee.

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10. In 2012, as the civil war in Syria intensified and American support for rebel forces there increased, Google's JigSaw brainstormed ways it could help push Bashar al-Assad from power. Among them: a tool that visually maps high-level defections from Assad’s government.

It's quite evident that the biggest and most respected Internet companies have been working in secret to funnel data on hundreds of thousands of users to the NSA, revealing by extension the vast amounts of personal data that these companies collected on their users.