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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: 4, Insightful) by Captival on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:17PM (3 children)

    by Captival (6866) on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:17PM (#926790)

    Now that the Clintons and Bidens aren't making obscene profits in China, we must all be extremely concerned about their influence. Same thing with Russia, who was our good buddy right up until November 2016, where they suddenly became the worst country ever and the root of all evil. But not before, when they were handing out million dollar "birthday gifts" to certain Democrats. That was okay. Nothing to see here.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:34PM (#926794)

    :42:

  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @07:17PM (#926801)

    Once again, a republitard managing to put the blame of every single bad thing in the Universe on democrats.

    This isn't even entertaining anymore.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday December 02 2019, @07:20PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday December 02 2019, @07:20PM (#927292) Journal

    Same thing with Russia, who was our good buddy right up until November 2016

    Turns out invading a neighbor and attacking our elections can have an effect on friendships.