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Database Leak Gives Us a Window into China’s Digital Surveillance State
- EngineerBetter 8y agoIt appears that in China, the state tracks your every move, whereas in the West private enterprise tracks your every move (Google, Facebook, et al).
- beezischillin 8y agoIs this because in the US the constitution kinda prevents the state from doing the same? But if they do it via a private proxy they can still do the same?
- schuke 8y agoThey are both bad, but the situation in the West are a lot less bad because one cannot easily opt out of a government and the government doesn’t have competitors that constantly tries to undermine tracking by offering various privcy tools as companies like Apple, Mozilla and Duckduckgo do.
- heavenlyblue 8y ago>> undermine tracking So if a US startup tracks my movement by analyzing CCTV records from the cameras on the street, is there a startup that would opt me out of that?
- londons_explore 8y agoIs this actually a state database, or some private 'AI' company trying to demonstrate its usefulness? 2.4 million data points per 24 hrs isn't that many really - that could be all the faces recognised by just one network of CCTV cameras, and is exactly what a data-hungry startup would try to do. It would be legal in the US too, since recording who walks along a public street isn't a crime.