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A comment on Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk. Parent comment

Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu... by godelski on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:00PM (#19539305)
Not to mention that it just poses a security risk, to YOU (the consumer). More places that have your data means more ways for it to leak.

Don't just blow this off as "oh but they aren't using it" (to GP, not parent). If you're going to gather data, there needs to be a reason. Hoarding it can be dangerous.

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Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu... by comex on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:11AM (#19542160)
AFAIK, the Epic launcher copied the data to a different location on the user’s disk, but didn’t transmit it over the Internet. So the data wasn’t “gathered” in the way you’re suggesting.
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