Facebook Data-Sharing Deals Include China's Huawei — Under U.S. Suspicion Since 2012
"Huawei worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users," the smartphone-maker tells NPR. "Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data."
Facebook's longstanding agreements that led it to share users' data with device-makers included Chinese phone-maker Huawei – a company of which the U.S. government has long been suspicious, and which intelligence officials view as a security threat.
The social media company also made data-sharing deals with other Chinese companies, including Lenovo, Oppo and TCL , . They're among the roughly 60 companies for which Facebook says it built private software — giving them special access to users' data so that their devices could mimic Facebook's online tools.
