Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Chinese Tech Firms (wsj.com)

Facebook confirmed this week that it struck data partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics firms, including Huawei, a telecommunications-equipment maker that U.S. officials view as a potential tool for state-sponsored spying. WSJ: The four partnerships are among the roughly 60 that Facebook struck with device manufacturers starting in 2007 so they could recreate the Facebook service on their devices, a Facebook spokeswoman said. As of Tuesday, more than half of those partnerships have been wound down, the spokeswoman added. The social-media company said it plans to wind down its data-sharing partnership with Huawei by the end of the week. It isn't clear when Facebook will end partnerships with the three other companies: Lenovo, the world's largest personal-computer maker; Oppo, a smartphone maker; and Chinese electronics conglomerate TCL.

Comments

am I the only one who's not concerned?

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

When you upload something to the cloud without first encrypting it using the keys only you know, then it automatically becomes public and known by third parties the moment it leaves your PC. So, what's all the fuss about? What kind of privacy did people/authorities actually expect? Or maybe they believed that the engineers in the said companies never pry into their users lives? Oh, wait, they do ...

In short, you must only upload and share only the things you can show to the entire world. End of story. Oh, it's almost the same for unencrypted email and certain instant messengers.

Re:am I the only one who's not concerned?

[XSportSeeker]

It's not about people like you. It's about the aggregate data and what businesses have been doing with all that, plus the underground economy that came out of these sorts of deals.
Let go of the "I have nothing to hide" mentality and look at the bigger picture.

Just so people know....

[XSportSeeker]

Lenovo = Motorola
TCL = Blackberry