Ansip said he was concerned because Chinese technology companies were required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, such as on “mandatory back doors” to allow access to encrypted data.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/12/07/why-does-5g-have-everyone-worried-about-huawei
Western spooks have mused publicly about the risk that Huawei’s kit might be siphoning valuable data back to Beijing, or that it comes with “back doors”
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/technology/huawei-arrest-meng-wanzhou.html
China sees the company as a pivotal driver of its ambitions for global technological leadership. Increasingly, much of the rest of the world sees it as a potential conduit for espionage and sabotage.
https://mondaynote.com/how-facebook-is-fueling-the-french-populist-rage-27a86acb9d85
The social network is playing a critical role in one of the worse civil unrest ever seen in France, with no end in sight for now.
https://wersm.com/microsoft-adds-live-captions-and-subtitles-in-skype-calls/
AI-powered live captions and subtitles in Skype calls, to help more people who are deaf or hard of hearing, use the service.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/05/threat-journalists-highest-level-10-years-report
hostility towards the media is becoming normalised around the world, amid a proliferation of “strongman” populist leaders who have echoed the language of the US president and vilified journalists for simply doing their jobs.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/wing-takes-flight-in-finland/
delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds) within a distance of up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who now faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.