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Huawei Funds $56M in Academic Research in Canada. That Has Some Experts Concerned

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 01 2019, @04:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the pwned?-what-me-worry-eh? dept.

Gaaark writes:

CBC News has found Huawei's financial ties to Canadian universities total more than $56 million. But there are no federal guidelines around how these investments should be managed and disclosed, and that raises questions about who will own the findings of the research and the resulting patents.

[...] "Frankly, the government of Canada has fallen down catastrophically," says Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which studies the way information is used, and misused, across technologies. "No one knows exactly what they should be doing."

Parsons, who is also the managing director of the Telecom Transparency Project, says the government's failure to set out policy guidelines for private sector funding has made it difficult for universities, which rely on that funding to stay at the forefront of wireless research and, in turn, attract top students.

Huawei says it is one of the biggest funders of academic research in Canada. Google, Microsoft, Rogers and Bell are among the others but declined to provide CBC News with any figures. Like Huawei, they are not required to disclose funding details.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/huawei-academic-funding-in-canada-1.5372310

Canadian universities pwned by big corp: does anyone else remember when universities and governments did research without the financial 'help' of corporations?

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:39PM (5 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:39PM (#926786) Journal

    I mean, it's Canada, not the US, so I can't give my "decaying empire" shpiel, but in the Information age, this is what a decaying empire would look like.

    Historically "decaying empire" leads directly to "collapsing empire thrashing around starting huge wars it can't win"

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:52PM (4 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:52PM (#926797) Journal
    Unintentional self-parody is the best parody.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 01 2019, @11:46PM (3 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday December 01 2019, @11:46PM (#926875) Journal

      Maybe so, but you do get tiresome after a while anyway...

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 02 2019, @04:08AM (2 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 02 2019, @04:08AM (#926972) Journal
        When the Montanan Empire lays its greedy hands upon the prostrate lands of dying Canadia, your days will be numbered!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @12:19PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @12:19PM (#927079)

          What's prostate lands, precious?