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Is there a way to disable data collection by the Chinese government on these? Or at least a way to toggle which government agency (NSA, GCHQ, etc) my data gets
by booleandilemma 8y ago
Is there a way to disable data collection by the Chinese government on these? Or at least a way to toggle which government agency (NSA, GCHQ, etc) my data gets sent to?
- Dahoon 8y agoDoes it really matter? If you are in China, sure, but if you are a non-Chinese citizen you are better off having someone else than your local version of NSA harvest your data. It is not like some other nations police will knock down your door or put you on a watch-list that gets you anal probed at the local airport. I would worry a lot more about NSA, Apple, Google and Facebook (if you are American at least) than Huawei.
- d3v0 8y agoSadly, 'your local NSA' is probably working with other nations' NSA. It has been already mentioned before in the leaked documents that governments use other nations' intelligence agencies to spy on their own people 'legally'.
- pentae 8y agoThey are not working with Chinas 'NSA' that's for damn sure.
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- lern_too_spel 8y ago> It has been already mentioned before in the leaked documents that governments use other nations' intelligence agencies to spy on their own people 'legally'. No, it hasn't. No leaked document says that. Instead, there is a well known understanding for the opposite. https://www.lawfareblog.com/i-spy-you-spy-we-all-spy https://www.lawfareblog.com/i-spy-you-spy-we-all-spy
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- bobsil1 8y agoSelect Your Snarfer [Ok] [Ok]
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- gsich 8y agoIs there an option for "western" phones?
- fastball 8y agoApple? They're pretty gungho about not handing over private keys and such to the feds.
- orbital-decay 8y agoThat doesn't necessarily mean they don't, though.
- mda 8y agoThey give it like everyone else.
- sschueller 8y agoYes but you are stuck in their walled garden.
- jorblumesea 8y agoIt's is why you buy western. It's also why the US wants to limit Huawei hardware in telecom infrastructure.
- seszett 8y agoYou can probably install Lineage OS on them (if not right now, some time in the future). On the other hand, I'm not sure if the Chinese government is a bigger threat to foreign individuals than the US government. It looks like China is mostly focused on industrial espionage while the US often mix an unpredictable amount of ideology in their actions.
- lucb1e 8y agoI don't get why everyone is so scared of Chinese phones when every brand has huge privacy and tracking issues. As a European, I would rather not be tracked by anyone, also not European companies, let alone foreign ones from either the west or the east.
- tomelders 8y agoTwo wrongs don't make a right.
- lucb1e 8y agoOh, no, I'm not saying Chinese tracking is good, I'm saying I don't understand why this comes up every time with Chinese phones but not with other brands. I always root the phone and remove tracking (there is always loads and loads).
- xster 8y agoI think the GP is being sarcastic (i.e. making the same point you're making)