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Exactly! More importantly, simply expect that if you are touching any digital/electronic technology that touches China, you should expect that they are extract
by toss1 3y ago
Exactly!
More importantly, simply expect that if you are touching any digital/electronic technology that touches China, you should expect that they are extracting and collecting every bit of available personal, location, and other data, and that it is available to the CCP. And, while the CCP likely does not GAF about your particular data, they do care a LOT about the aggregate data. They also will find it very handy when in intersects for particular targets, such as any of the millions of US govt employees whose data they harvested over years [0][1].
The Great Experiment, in which it was thought that open commerce and exchange would lead to democracy and freedom for China's millions, has failed, resoundingly. All it did was further empower a ruthless dictatorship bent on global expansionism. Do not do business with China.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-spent-years-collecting-americans-personal-information-u-s-just-n1134411 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/china-spent-years-coll...
- JohnBooty 3y agoAmen. The insights that can be gleaned from even innocuous-seeming data at scale are impressive and terrifying.