[doctor_radium]

Agreed, and I know Opera is Chinese-owned, but Opera's web site still lists their headquarters as Norway. Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company, with some safeguards against abuse? Not sure if any EU laws might also come into play.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company

No. It's a Chinese company with an office in Oslo (in addition to China) [1].

Had they run it as an independent subsidiary there might have been a claim that it remains Norwegian. But they haven't and so it isn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)#Acquisition_an...

[llamaimperative]

I think foreign intelligence services are perfectly comfortable "navigating" laws. Obviously every company is vulnerable to this, but it sure is preferable not to have ownership concentrated in a country where all corporations are de facto extensions of the state itself.