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This behavior isn’t unique to Chinese companies.

• pjc50 6y ago
  That's basically the problem, isn't it? In order to address this behaviour, the West would have to admit that it was bad, and that it was also bad when done by western companies, and have a coherent theory of privacy.
  • Yetanfou 6y ago
    Nope, the problem here is that Recent does this, had it been Microsoft who was caught (as has happened several times) the problem would have been that Microsoft did it. The problem, in other words, is not related to the identity of the perpetrator. In some cases that identity might be a country - Tencent, Vkontakte, etc - while in other cases it is some commercial entity with probable ties to a country - Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, AT&T, etc.
• Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
  Correct, but it is much more typical and common of them than any other nation. This has been a major issue for decades across many countries, all of whom have been lobbying (for instance in the WTO) to crack down on Chinese IP theft, their use of non-Chinese citizens' data for censorship training purposes, etc
• weare138 6y ago
  Of course it happens here too but US companies are liable to US laws and civil penalties. Good luck filing a lawsuit in the US against a company in China. I'm sure the courts in China will make your US class action lawsuit their top priority.
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