And this particular Chinese company, Huawei, is a company that has been flagged by U.S. intelligence officials as a national security threat. Huawei, and other companies including Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL were allowed private access to Facebook user data. They could access things including work and education history, relationship status, and likes. So for over ten years, Facebook has carried on a relationship with Huawei, but they announced they’ll be ending that partnership this week.
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