• Nakoichi [he/him]
    hexbear
    27
    3 months ago

    Honestly way less afraid of China snooping on my data than US corporations. Only one of those groups regularly colludes with the FBI/CIA/other three letter agencies.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      18
      3 months ago

      2013: Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

      Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

      The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.

  • @tiredcapillary@iusearchlinux.fyi
    hexbear
    15
    3 months ago

    I'm not big of a fan of Chinese surveillance but to most peoples point that have already posted here, if this was about privacy then the government should be passing laws to protect consumer privacy as a whole and not just targeting Chinese companies. Really shows that the government doesn't give a shit about your privacy just who's able to get it.

    • @Tak@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      15
      3 months ago

      What China can do in violating my privacy is much less than my own government.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        I think the comment shouldn't have been removed, but principally because it is trivial to refute. The US is well aware of the fact that people calling for revolution have no teeth, while the people who actually did substantial law-breaking on Jan 6 (which itself had no teeth, but I digress) were indeed arrested.

        Meanwhile, Wikipedia's list of Chinese"dissidents" includes blatant fraudsters like Miles Guo, who fled China to evade capture for financial crimes before being imprisoned in the US for continuing to commit financial crimes, to say nothing of the "dissidents" involved in actual insurrectionary activity that killed PLA soldiers.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
        hexbear
        11
        3 months ago

        If all you did was drop a wiki link that's a pretty worthless comment. Do you think China is the only country where dissidents get in trouble with the government? Do you think the U.S. doesn't harass (or worse) dissidents?

        Who knows, use your words