Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance
by yibg on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:20PM
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My problem with this is now it shifts the goal post on what's considered bad. Chinese companies collecting data is bad, US companies collecting data is better so we don't focus on it as much. When in fact in general massive data collection is a problem and should be dealt with. This is providing a smoke screen.
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Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance
by themacguffinman on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:25PM
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The US has much stronger legal barriers and recourse for abuse of data as well as strong separation between state and industry. It's not hard to think of why corporate data collection should be treated very differently in the two countries.
Re:TikTok, Trump, and the Future of Open Source Surveillance
by obmelvin on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:22PM
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Unfortunately, only "top tier" companies really care about your data. I get where you are coming from, I just wish we'd also pass legislation that did something about negligent custodians of data.