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Do you live in China? If not, why would you care? Meta, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are far more likely to snitch on you to the government you actually live under.
by dontlaugh 1y ago
Do you live in China? If not, why would you care?
Meta, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are far more likely to snitch on you to the government you actually live under.
- stickfigure 1y agoDespite the trainwreck that is the current presidential administration, we have a hell of a long way to fall before our government is as malevolent China's.
- dontlaugh 1y agoI assume you mean the US. The same one that did a coup in my country, bombed my neighbours, invaded countless countries and is currently fully supporting a genocide. It certainly doesn’t compare, but not the way you think.
- bobthepanda 1y agoEh, they are doing a bunch of the above in the Myanmar conflict.
- ethersteeds 1y agoYou seem to assume that the risk begins and ends with government persecution/prosecution. I'm not the gp, but for me, there are several bigger concerns: First, the possibility that access could be leveraged for intelligence gathering or industrial espionage. The goal might be geopolitics, but I still don't want my data to be fodder nor do I want to explain to my employer that I'm responsible for their breach. Second, the possibility of becoming collateral damage during an escalation of hostilities between my country and China. If I've grown dependent a device, I face significant disruption if they block cloud services or even outright remotely brick it. The war in Ukraine demonstrated this isn't limited to the other country's exports, but they're still at the greatest risk. So yeah, a company snitching on me to big brother I live under is just one threat I have to consider when giving access to all my data.