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I think the concern is foreign agents using the data for either propaganda or targeting individuals’ phones/location data. It’s exactly what national intellige
by pnpnp 4y ago
I think the concern is foreign agents using the data for either propaganda or targeting individuals’ phones/location data.
It’s exactly what national intelligence exists for.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoYeah, I get that. They are concerned about the Chinese government abusing the data in that specific way. But they are not really concerned with any other abuses. Is it really the category of abuse that matters here, and not the actor? Color me unconvinced.
- pnpnp 4y agoI absolutely think it’s about the actor AND the category. The CCP has really been stepping up its game and putting pressure on in a bad way lately. The South China Sea, Taiwan, Russian interaction… lots of geopolitical reasons for the two governments to be unfriendly at the moment.
- thomastjeffery 4y ago...and what does that have to do with my data? Do you really think the CCP is going to run an effective pro-Russia/China or anti-Taiwan propaganda campaign? In the US? An effective one? I'm still not convinced that risk is even remotely more concerning than what Facebook or the NSA are doing.