"However, equating Beijing to Washington in many of these specific [surveillance] issues is simply non-sensical authoritarian apologetics." Here is where you[1

"However, equating Beijing to Washington in many of these specific [surveillance] issues is simply non-sensical authoritarian apologetics." Here is where you[1] are dead wrong. Collecting the data is the original sin. Once our profiles are created it is only a matter of time before they will get abused. Yes, by a (future) evil government. [1] (the author, probably the only one reading through those 100s of comments) "I always ask people where they are from." How about: "What do you DO?"