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I know I sound like a broken record on Huawei posts (too many friends' parents lost their jobs over it) but it's worth pointing out that Huawei has an (alleged) record relating to stealing information for their own gain, ie: they stole a lot of IP from Nortel in the 90s[0], possibly others. Then they competed in the same market with a fraction of the R&D budget and buried Nortel.

Don't think about this in terms of just governments tracking you. Consider if you have any work emails containing company secrets in them. Consider if you have 2FA apps installed that you would use to unlock or change your work password. And since it was almost certainly the Chinese Intel/Military that helps Huawei and other companies, you can be sure that whatever information Huawei gets access to doesn't need to just help them out, but might help any other company the Chinese government wants to see succeed.

Google and Apple might use your data to better target ads against you. That's terrible, but doesn't seem so bad in comparison.

[0]https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-ag...

parent mabbo 8 years ago

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