Huawei denies charges that it stores Facebook user data

Beijing. June 8. Silkroadnews - Huawei said it has never stored any Facebook user data, Global Times reports.
“Like all leading smartphone providers, Huawei worked with Facebook to make Facebook’s services more convenient for users. Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data,” Huawei said.
According to Chinese analysts, the partnership between Facebook and Chinese technology companies is a normal business of mutually beneficial cooperation and should not be politicized.
“The US now holds a political attitude toward China’s high-technology industry. No matter what the issue is, US politicians tend to relate it to politics and then investigate the issue slowly. Ultimately, the biggest winner is politicians… the biggest victim is the mutual trust and cooperation base of the Chinese and US high-technology sectors,” the agency quoted Fang Xingdong, the founder of ChinaLabs technology analysis center.
“When such a base is destroyed by politics, it is US and Chinese enterprises that pay the biggest price. If this causes losses on both sides, US companies will lose more in the Chinese market, compared with Chinese high-technology companies' interests in the US market,” Fang said.
Representatives of Facebook said some general data of users stayed on Huawei smartphones, and not on the servers of the Chinese company.
However, the U.S. government has expressed concern about the potential threat to the U.S. national security.
Senator Mark Warner said he would like to learn more about how Facebook ensured that information about their users is not sent to Chinese servers.
“Facebook has strict rules about what data can be provided to its partners and how they can use the data. As [data is] its own core competitiveness, it’s impossible that the company would be willing to share data of value with its partners. Now, everything in the US related to China is exaggerated against the background of trade tensions. It seems that the US believes any cooperation between Chinese and US companies would threaten US national security,” Fu Liang, a Beijing-based independent telecom industry, told the Global Times, the publication reads.