Facebook shared information with Chinese manufacturers


Facebook shared information with Chinese manufacturers


Huawei is a minority in the United States but has a large market in other countries



     The saga on Facebook that The New York Times has been revealing since Sunday acquired a new level of scandal in the US, where Huawei is a manufacturer of mobile phones virtually unknown but under suspicion. The idea that Mark Zuckerberg's company would have shared information about users with a Chinese manufacturer at the service of a government that invests in piracy and controls its citizens infuriated more than one senator, in whose hands is the future of Facebook.

From the commercial point of view, why share information with Apple, HTC and even Blackberry but not with the second world manufacturer of mobile phones? Huawei may be a minority in the US but has made a name in countries such as Spain, Italy, Poland and Cuba, where the glamor of Apple is above the income of the majority.

The Chinese manufacturer provides an attractive alternative at significantly lower prices. This is how it is practically tied with Apple in the sale of mobile phones in the world, both competing for the second place with 11% and 10% of the world share respectively, a long way from Samsung, which sells 22% of the smart phones.

        The problems of Facebook were unleashed last December when the British newspaper The Guardian revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a key player in the election of Donald Trump, had access to the information of 87 million users and their connections through a third party that sent them a poll. In his appearances before the Congress Zuckerberg never said that he also shared the information of its users with at least 60 manufacturers, as The New York Times has published. At least four would be Chinese.

Since 2012, a congressional report has warned of the danger to national security posed by the close relationship between manufacturers such as Huawei and the Chinese Communist Party. Just last month, the Pentagon banned the sale of Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL phones at military bases for fear that the government was introducing Trojan horses to its troops. Facebook has collaborated with them since 2007 to ensure that their services are available in the social networking applications developed by these manufacturers for their phones.

    The company of Zuckerberg assures that it has maintained an iron control during the process and insists on which none of them stores the data of the users in their servants, but they remain in the telephones that the user owns. Apparatus that, on the other hand, the US government does not allow its diplomats to be used. Even the UN inspects them when their workers visit China, where information about religious beliefs or the political ideas of any Facebook user can serve to take them to jail.

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