EE Times, Junko Yoshida,  January 16, 2020, https://www.eetimes.com/ces-2020-deconstructed-10-lessons/ LAS VEGAS — After miles of roaming the show floor, countless press briefings and one-on-one interviews, what did we learn at the CES 2020? Anyone who survived the last week’s ordeal in Las Vegas almost involuntarily comes away with a personal “takeaway” list. Below are the main perceptions I derived from my tour of CES 2020. [Separately I recorded my interviews with executives from leading automotive semiconductor companies and aired them on our radio show, CES

FACEBOOK is caught up in a data breach controversy that saw info on 50 million users exposed – but what actually happened? Here’s a simple guide to the Facebook data breach fiasco. What’s the Facebook data breach controversy about? This weekend, a report by The Guardian revealed that a company called Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of 50 million Facebook profiles. This information was allegedly used to map out voter behaviour in 2016 for both the Brexit campaign

HIGHLIGHTS Many users online had earlier expressed their concerns about the Chinese government using manufacturers from the country to spy on users overseas. Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has been called out for spying on personal user data using their smartphones. According to a new report online, the Xiaomi Redmi Note has been found to be sending photos and texts to a server in Beijing. This has further fueled speculations about the Chinese government spying on users overseas through phones made