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Re:Slack is down by tw04 on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:22PM (#25635614)
I think it's a pretty bold claim to state that Zoom's actions aren't unique.

What other business in this space has given China unfettered access to US users and data? I'm not aware of it occurring with Webex, Teams or go2meeting. The "one rogue employee" thing falls flat pretty quickly when they're the only ones that had this issue.

This feels like their encryption thing all over again, there's an "oversight" that is equivalent to a backdoor that only gets fixed when they get caught.

Re:Slack is down by Frost1x on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:29PM (#25635741)
I didn't realize they shared any user data outside China (misread the WP portion). It appears they did share 10 users' data which is a bit questionable but I'd hardly call that unfettered access to US data.

The fact is all of the US businesses operating in China give surveillance ability to the Chinese government for the Chinese users and are operating in an ethically questionable space being primarily based outside of China, at least in my opinion.

It's really not too different than the businesses sharing US citizen data to the US government, much of which Snowden and others before him exposed. I suspect there's a lot more surveillance going on everywhere than the general public know about and the businesses best positioned to do the surveillance are probably doing it.