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What does China have to do with any of this?
by dna_polymerase 7y ago
What does China have to do with any of this?
- sct202 7y agoA Chinese company owns Media.net which is one of the largest AdSense competitors.
- MereInterest 7y agoEven so, it comes across as a jingoistic diversion in order to paint users and advertisers as being on the same side. "It would be a shame if there were one fewer group stalking you everywhere you go, because then the right people wouldn't be stalking you."
- sjg007 7y agoI think the risk is that your targeting information is in the hands of a company that can be mined by the Chinese government to perhaps even identify you. It's also aggregate market/economic information. Should this data be protected or otherwise restricted? Should it be export controlled or not? You can imagine that the "data wars" are coming ... whether that's healthy competition or something else I don't think we know yet or have policy around. I think the EU is further ahead in this space with policies around data privacy for example. The US could operate similarly but we usually expect a warrant for such access but I think there is a big push in the US govt to expand access as well.
- La1n 7y ago>The US could operate similarly but we usually expect a warrant for such access but I think there is a big push in the US govt to expand access as well. With PRISM starting data collection from Google more than 10 years ago I think expecting a warrant for this very valuable data is generous.
- sjg007 7y agoFor sure parallel construction is a looming issue that we as a society and the courts need to figure out.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoChina is the leading bogeyman used to suggest allowing monopolies in the US is a good idea. In short, since China allows their companies to behave badly, we should let ours behave badly too so that we don't fall behind in the market.