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As a non Chinese living outside of China and with no plans to ever travel there I'd rather let Chines government read my data than my own government.
by levosmetalo 13y ago
As a non Chinese living outside of China and with no plans to ever travel there I'd rather let Chines government read my data than my own government.
- oelmekki 13y agoI totally agree with you that it should be considered good practice to host one's data outside one own country, so that we're preserved for any deviant paranoia government may happen to have (and other government would probably care less of individual data if you're not from their country). All countries are not equals, though. China and US are known to have no regard for privacy, and are prone to violent actions - so I'd rather chose an other country. Of course, we can't expect any country to behave good, simply because we have no mean to know it. But we can expect countries with no aggressive reputation and with low budget to be less dangerous.
- derefr 13y agoTo put it another way: both China and the US might read all my mail and then consider me a dissident against their respective regimes. But, if the US wanted to do something with that information, they could just have me arrested; whereas if China wanted to do something with that information, they'd have to start a war. An analogy: a teenager who sneaks out of the house at night, worries much more about their own parents finding out, than some other random adult. Other adults might be strictly more powerful than their own parents in any sense you'd like to measure, but the teenager isn't living under their rooves.