Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Chinese Huawei Inc. Detained in Vancouver at the request of U.S.

* Meng Wanzhou was detained on Dec 1 in Vancouver in between flights by Canadian authorities on the request of the United States government.* Meng is charged with fraud dealing with International sanctions against Iran.  * Meng is accused of repeatedly lying to financial institutions about the relationship between Huawei and a company called Skycom that did business in Iran in violation of international sanctions.* She serves as deputy chairwoman of the company’s board and served on the board of Skycom in 2008 and 2009.* As a result of her alleged lies, prosecutors contend that the banks she dealt with were “induced into carrying out transactions that they otherwise would not have contemplated.” Those transactions put them on the wrong side of the international community.* A former Canadian Diplomat, Michael Kovrig, was detained in China earlier in the week.* Kovrig works for “International Crisis Group” an non profit. * China has not released the details of his detention but many are saying it is in retaliation to Meng’s detention.* Canada Goose (parkas) Shares have dropped by 20% since Meng’s arrest.* Canada Goose Parkas are prestige clothing in China.* A viral anti-Canadian campaign was started on Weibo (Chinese social media) and named Canada Goose as a company to boycott. * The Chinese Government followed suit and has published the boycott across China.  * Why not American? * The Chinese Government hopes to put enough pressure on Canada and Canadian companies to release Meng before she gets extradited to the United States. * What are the Concerns with Huawei’s 5G technology?* Huawei is working on advanced security technology with the “Public Security Bureau” in China.* They are working on advanced new surveillance and population-control techniques. * the use of facial recognition * digital monitoring * artificial intelligence in policing.* Chinese law requires companies in China to “support, cooperate with and collaborate in national intelligence work”.* Security experts have proven that this “surveillance technology” could be brought into other countries in their 5G telecommunications hardware and smartphones. * Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance – 3 of the 5 (US, Australia and New Zealand) have already banned Huawei from their 5G infrastructure.  Canada and Britain are still on the fence.* China also has a history of stealing intellectual property from Western countries (including Canada).  

Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak

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* Google+ has suffered another data leak* Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. * Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. * According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation,