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the biggest threat to a citizens privacy is always your own government.
by hunglee2 3y ago
the biggest threat to a citizens privacy is always your own government.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoYep. I use Chinese brand phones because if they're snooping all my shit, they're much further away from me than my own government and not likely to have sharing arrangements.
- aspenmayer 3y agoWouldn’t Chinese branded phones be a higher priority target by foreign agencies in the first place?
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoIt's likely an additional data point in some kind of 'suspicious' rating. I think I hit quite a few of those 'suspicious' check-boxes that law enforcement would consider important, whilst actually technically knowledgeable people wouldn't even blink at them. Refer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050898
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoI kinda disagree, because the government, even now, can be shamed and outraged. Corporations however? They are, by design, utterly amoral. So the modern state is that corporations are hoovering all your data they can for "ad research and optimization". I think I read recently that facebook has thousands of companies involved in the customer data supply chain? And if those companies have your data, it's not that YOUR government has it guaranteed. It's that ALL governments have your data.