Huawei founder: ‘We will learn from Apple’ privacy policies

By Joel Gehrke

Published January 16, 2019 9:37pm ET

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Huawei founder: ‘We will learn from Apple’ privacy policies — A profile of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is displayed on a Huawei computer at a Huawei store in Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested Meng for possible extradition to the United States. | (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A leading Chinese tech company plans to “learn from Apple” about how to safeguard customer information, the founder pledged, disputing Western suspicions that Chinese spy services loom over the corporation.

“We will learn from Apple,” Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei told reporters, according to the South China Morning Post. “We would rather shut Huawei down than do anything that would damage the interests of our customers in order to seek our own gains.”

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