Apple is the ‘Role Model’ on Data Privacy—Know the Perspective of Huawei CEO Zhengfei
For the past records, there have been a cold war with speculations, and Microsoft is expected to lead ahead. But, perceptions are at divergence with Huawei CEO Zhenfei. Lauding Apple’s business tactics—he stated that Apple has the right idea when it comes to protecting users’ privacy.
Basically, his perspective is that Apple is the role model in a scenario where the Chinese government requests the company to unlock its devices which might go against the users' interests.
The perspective as he frames finds its origin with the event when the US government, lately has banned Huawei to operate in the country in the interest of national policy, claiming it is hand in glove with the Chinese government.
Despite being squeezed uncomfortably between the ongoing US-China trade war, Huawei has finally managed to take the control over US market after being allowed by President Donald Trump to purchase technology from American companies, but the 5G ban is still in a place of uncertainty.
Apparently, he creates similarity with the fact that user data is preferred to be kept private to the Chinese government and much of the way that Apple does not provide data that could privacy agreement of its users' privacy.
This theory states— if data breaching is allowed even once, there are fears that the US is to have the availability of sensitive data facts to spread around the world. Furthermore, as the CEO thinks, they are prone to be ignored by other 170 countries and regions in which they operate would stop buying our products, and the company would collapse.
Apparently, they fear of laid back with debt that they can’t pay.
Drawing the emotional connection, they even told with a make-believe gesture that the employees being very competent would resign and start their own companies, leaving him alone to pay off the debts.
With the US ban, for the business records, Huawei is suffering at a massive $30 billion loss in revenue for this year, with net profits expected to be around $8 billion.
Taking on with the ambiguity, Zhengfei states, Trump's fears are baseless as the Chinese government controls the mainstream management of private companies through legal frameworks and taxation procedures. That way they ensure that there would not be any intervention in the interim or third party business operations.
Through a humorous gesture, the Huawei Founder states, “I don't know why the US government micromanages its tech companies as much as they do. They act like a mother-in-law, and if they get too involved, their daughters-in-law might run off”.
According to him, the data belongs to the users, not Huawei. Explaining on a more technical level, Carriers are supposed to track every user; otherwise, no phone calls could be made. It is a carrier's duty to track user data. “We, as an equipment provider, don't track any data," said Zhengfei.
With the US government demanding to be more transparent with the data for a mutually correlated business operation, complying with the business standards—the CEO putting forward the perspective with the declaration stating, “Apple is the role model,” clearly speaks up of the coalition of the “Apple’s” motto to that of the company’s is a fair one.
