UN Zucc hands Facebook users' data to the Chinese - Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO, and TCL to collect Facebook users' data

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Facebook has confirmed it has a data-sharing partnership with Chinese firms including Huawei, a company US intelligence previously flagged as a security threat.

The agreements gave the Chinese firms some access to users' data to help them build Facebook "experiences" on their own platforms.

Facebook said all the data collected remained on users' phones not servers.

The company is already under scrutiny over how it uses members' information.

Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009 but the company has been trying to find other ways to access the massive potential market.

'Legitimate concerns'
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Facebook had given at least 60 device-makers access to users' data - and that of their Facebook friends - without obtaining explicit consent and that in some cases the details were stored on the firms' own servers.

Facebook rejected claims that this had been a breach of privacy pledges that it had made to its members and a US regulator.

Senator Mark Warner, who sits on the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said news that Huawei was among the companies getting the privileged access to the Facebook data raised "legitimate concerns".

On Tuesday, Facebook responded by saying it "along with many other US tech companies have worked with them [Huawei] and other Chinese manufacturers to integrate their services onto these phones".

Francisco Varela, vice-president of mobile partnerships for Facebook, said the integrations with Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO and TCL were "controlled from the get go" and that "we approved the Facebook experiences these companies built".

"Given the interest from Congress, we wanted to make clear that all the information from these integrations with Huawei was stored on the device, not on Huawei's servers," he added.

In 2012, the US House Intelligence Committee warned US companies against dealing with Huawei and another Chinese telecoms firm, ZTE.

A report by the committee asked whether the firms were too close to China's Communist Party and its military. It also suggested their products and services could pose a long-term security threat to the US.

Facebook had already come under fire over its involvement in a scandal involving consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

The firms were at the centre of a dispute over the harvesting and use of personal data - and whether it was used to influence the outcome of the US 2016 presidential election or the UK's referendum on leaving the EU.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in May apologised to EU lawmakers for the company's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and for allowing fake news to proliferate on its platform.
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Zucc is still really greedy for that ever elusive Chinese market. Even more than a decade later, he is still doing everything he can to kowtow before the Chinese in hopes that the government will lift their ban on Facebook and allow it to compete with the big Chinese social media giants who exert an unyielding iron grip on the Chinese market. Consider this data-sharing agreement as the latest hoop they've tricked him into jumping through. So far he has married a Chinese, learned Mandarin, goes to China at every opportunity to talk at all their high tech conferences, meets CCP officials at home and abroad to curry favor. Who is he kidding? It's ten years too late for him to break into China, and he has absolutely nothing to show for his decade long efforts except for middling proficiency in introductory-level Mandarin conversation and the "my wife is asian" meme.

It's somewhat reassuring to know that no matter how hard he manages to shaft the userbase of his product, the Chinese will shaft him back just as hard by keeping him grovelling at their feet for the rest of his life with the lure of the Chinese market as the unattainable prize. Good on them for turning his greed against him and making him look like even more of an ass in the process.
 
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millais said:
He's so desperate to gain the approval of the Chinese government that I wouldn't be surprised if he handed over the data for next to nothing as a gesture of goodwill on his part.
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The Chinese have their own social media networks anyway. They probably took the data and told Zuckerberg to get bent.
 
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I do understand the allure of using social media and the uses it can provide as a tool for productivity (Finding people, work groups, etc), but man, news like this make me glad I was never into that social media shit. The most "social media" I have ever used is Telegram (Shitty phone messaging app). Lol. My peers and family always nag me to get in on it, but nope, I sure as fuck won't be getting into it; specially after news like these come out.
 
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thismanlies said:
The Chinese have their own social media networks anyway. They probably took the data and told Zuckerberg to get bent.
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Pretty much. They've had their own domestic social media networks with more than a decades' worth of protectionist policy giving them an unbeatable head start over any possible foreign competition, and Zucc is deluded enough to think that he can still gain a foothold in that cutthroat market. Even if they weren't banned, Google, Youtube, Twitter and all the other internet media giants would struggle to make any headway against their Chinese copies/counterparts. There's just no way for any outsider to break in at this point. He'd have better luck trying to convince the Russians to switch en masse from VK to Facebook.

All that is made even more absurd by the fact that the Chinese will probably never even let him do business in China in the first place, so he's essentially grovelling for pennies that he'll never see.
 
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thismanlies said:
Outside of a few, most of them are glad he gives so much fucking data to the NSA.
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A chance to hammer the silicone valley liberal media while also looking like you're the smarter party when it comes to technology isn't something that they should be passing up. Plus, it's not like the Democrats are seriously going to oppose them on yet another PATRIOT act reauthorization or whatever, so the surveillance state will continue.
 
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Looks like every narcicist that was so eager to post every inane detail of their stupid lives is starting to realize they signed away their privacy.
 
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