Remember when Huawei's CFO was detained in Canada? She's been promoted to chair the board Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou – who was famously held in Canada and is the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei – has quietly been named as one of three people who share the role as chair of the Chinese company's board. Huawei rotatesits CEO and chair every six months, appointing the new leaders from a panel of three who …
Facebook don't require or seek consent before tracking you. Everyone who uses the net has a Facebook profile; some of them are filled with pictures of their children and preferred furry creature, others like mine are shadow profiles that we neither consented to nor can we delete despite never signing up for an account.
Locally I see people driving down the Interstate, skipping from lane to lane without indicating anything (some of them are police cars) and speeding a lot of the time. But every now and then we hear that the police stopped a car because the driver failed to indicate when they changed lanes, and then "discover" drugs hidden in the car ... I expect that they are tracking the drivers phone.
Do please remember they're a little more adventurous than cookie-tracking as per the above tangents.
E.g., Huawei's monthly and quarterly awards to the employees who stole the highest value/earning technology that month/quarter, plus paying them a profit-share on its earnings.
A) evidence incl.emails, documents, policy announcements, etc lodged in court. For some equally trippy documentation, read the evidence in the "Tappy" case.
B) I've never heard of any private company operating remotely as cynically-yet-(internally)openly, but you could always ask the companies you're suspicious of.
Facebook stole the idea and code that runs Facebook
Google stole all the books it scanned without paying authors or asking permission. Google stole all the content from websites it indexed without asking for permission.
Stop falling for the narrative foreigner companies and spies are bad, when US mega-corps and the US spy agencies are just as bad at stealing ideas, monetising you private data and tracking everything you do.
Accountability ?
For the CEO of a multinational multi-billion dollar behemoth ?
Has Apotheker been sanctioned for his shameful dealings in acquiring Autonomy ?
Do these "critics" understand how the world works these days ?
Since nobody else has said it: this is good news. I know there's an element of nepotism, but her dignity and composure during her house arrest in Canada, and after her return to China, were impressive. I think she'll be good at the job and Huawei will be the better for it (and their competitors will be the worse).
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