Why isn't anyone talking about how much of a privacy risk Chinese tech brings.
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You could ask the same about US tech?
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You could ask the same about US tech?
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Because western tech has the same backdoors. look at the NSA leaks and western legislation that allows governments to mandate back doors with gag orders.
The banning of eastern tech is not because the tech may have back doors, it because they likely don't have western back doors.
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So you always know what is the risk and who's responsible for it with Chinese tech, and for American tech you'll never know who's stealing your data and what enshittification will happen on the next day
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whataboutism – as long as you’re distracted by “China!”, you aren’t paying attention to the far more egregious privacy violations happening right here at home
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I'm more concerned about security. In most circumstances my data is really not worth that much especially when hardware is involved. They might be collecting some data for other reasons but I am not convinced that a significant amount of hardware has a malicious backdoor.
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can't be bought.
... because production capacity collapsed due to graft and all the shelves are empty.
But worry not, Comrade, for at least the higher up ranks of The Party got theirs! And that's all they care about.
Don't complain or you will be invited to have a discussion and no one will ever see your entire family ever again.
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I'm more concerned about security. In most circumstances my data is really not worth that much especially when hardware is involved. They might be collecting some data for other reasons but I am not convinced that a significant amount of hardware has a malicious backdoor.
Yeah individually your data is approximately worth 200$/year (that's a real estimation I read somewhere, not something I spit out of my ass).
So yeah not much worth you're right. But if you stop being selfish for a moment and think as a community and take that portion for 1 billion people on earth, how much is that worth? Yeah you guessed it... It's a huge amount of money ^^ !
So stop thinking only for your self and start to think how we are all involved in this shit and should fight back as much as possible...
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I mean it's been talked about over and over again leading to US accusing TikTok of spying on users and EU* banning Huawei and ZTE from 5G infrastructure.
But end users just doesn't care. They click accept all on every popup without even reading if it's cookies or to allow the site to send scam antivirus notifications. They buy the cheap chinese phone because it's cheap just as they buy shit from Temu and Shein even when their plastic is poisonous and their workers are stuck with 75 hour weeks and not being allowed to leave the premises.*Not all EU countries has chosen to ban them.
https://cybernews.com/security/bytedance-used-tiktok-data-spy-on-americans-supreme-court/
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries-took-5g-security-measures-to-ban-huawei-zte -
whataboutism – as long as you’re distracted by “China!”, you aren’t paying attention to the far more egregious privacy violations happening right here at home
The average American's naivety is best embodied by Rick Derringer and his "Real American."
We're the real deal, we're the heroes. Everyone else poses danger expect us.
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Because western tech has the same backdoors. look at the NSA leaks and western legislation that allows governments to mandate back doors with gag orders.
The banning of eastern tech is not because the tech may have back doors, it because they likely don't have western back doors.
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Everyone seems to be talking, but no one is really listening. Your privacy and security are your own responsibility; relying on others to make changes is unwise.
An individual has no privacy to protect if the laws are wrong, and laws cannot be changed by individuals.
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The valid answer is that the Chinese police state has no authority over individuals in the West and is unlikely to share information with Western law enforcement given the geopolitical situation. In narrow terms, that makes for an inadvertent privacy win for individuals in the West.
But the problem you describe is certainly real (whatever other seem to think here) for countries in China's sphere of influence, in Asia, Africa, Latin America. For them, China is already selling off-the-peg solutions for mass surveillance. If your country's homegrown dictator gets his hands on this stuff, it's going to be harder than ever to get rid of him.
For us the problem is rather that China is pioneering and normalizing practices that will certainly be adopted and copied one day by our own police forces with our own technology.
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An individual has no privacy to protect if the laws are wrong, and laws cannot be changed by individuals.
They can be ignored by individuals
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The average American's naivety is best embodied by Rick Derringer and his "Real American."
We're the real deal, we're the heroes. Everyone else poses danger expect us.
When MH370 disappeared and there was speculation that USAmerica had made it disappear, my mate at the time said “there’s no way America would do that”.
