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>What would data protection by Chinese companies even mean? They're already comprehensively cooperating with the CCP. Well even if it looked anything like the

>What would data protection by Chinese companies even mean? They're already comprehensively cooperating with the CCP. Well even if it looked anything like the EU's GDPR, even then the CCP would still have a carte blanche to collect whatever they wanted, just as the BND [0], AVID [1] et al do so today, and at least the politicians could pat them selves on the back about how they are protecting their people, while continuing to subvert such protections. [0] https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2016/09/secret-report-reveals-german-bnd-also.html https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2016/09/secret-report-rev... [1] https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/02/dutch-government-tried-to-hide-truth.html https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/02/dutch-government-...

dogma1138 9y ago
The GDPR specifically exempts governments from the regulation. In fact the GDPR would likely concentrate data collection to governments which would provide services to the market. In fact this has already happened in countries with strict regulation like Germany where if you want to look up someone’s details it’s much easier to simply access them from a government run DB than collect them on your own.
- cinquemb 9y ago
  >if you want to look up someone’s details it’s much easier to simply access them from a government run DB Yes, it will be much easier to gain access to a compromised government DB if you want to have bulk access to such information a la shadowbrokers et al.