This is answered in the article:

> Facebook said all the data collected remained on users' phones not servers.

> A Huawei spokesperson said: "Like all leading smartphone providers, Huawei has worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users. Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data."

Sure, it has about as much relation to the whole issue like randomly replacing subjects in sentences with other organizations has.

I mean if CCP is same as Huawei, Trumps government has to be the same as Facebook and might as well find a way to equate Ghanas government with something if we're being all xenophobic. Maybe something about the government being criminals because it's mostly people of color?

Why would facebook have to share that kind of data? Wouldn't that be available at the OS level?

It's pretty naive to think this is the extent of it. They didn't make a billion dollars by sending people information about how much time you spent on the app. They analyse your chats and posts to see what kinds of things you're interested in so they can build a sort of 'person data structure' full of data points unique to you that they can package up and sell to advertisers.

This is just my best guess anyway, based on what I've seen elsewhere in the industry. It's safe to assume Facebook is hoarding any data about you they can legally get their hands on, including contact info, speech info, facial info, information of people who don't even use Facebook.. There's almost no laws for this industry yet, you can collect anything.

I'm sure Facebook does that kind of analysis.

I just doubt they'd be happy to share that analysis (or the data behind it) with phone manufacturers.