Something feels fundamentally wrong about using a phone case designed in Hong Kong on a Huawei phone
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I'd feel wrong using a Huawei device in general.
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It's not really fear mongering, it's how the entire country is set up. Yes, how some have spun it is wrong. However, if the Chinese government wants information Huawei possesses, they will get it. Not that personal information is their target. Right now I'd never use one because they lack Google Services.
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Mine has google services. as for the other part, the same can be said of any ISP in any country, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter any pretty much everyone else that offers a service.
with that said, there has been a number of independant reviews of chinese law specifically regarding Huawei's ties to the Chinese government and a large number of them stat that Huawei has no legal obligation to install backdoors, or provide information. The Chinese government would have more success going to the service providers to get their information than the equipment manufacturer which their law DOES allow, again just like pretty much every other country.