Re:Trump bans Alipay and seven other Chinese apps
by tzs on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:47AM
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It’s also to a significant extent moot because much of the data that can’t be gathered from banned apps in the US can be bought from data brokers.
When your domestic privacy laws are weak enough to allow a largely unregulated marketplace in personal information and to largely allow domestic apps to gather and sell personal information, banning foreign apps that also do so won’t keep such data out of foreign hands.
When your domestic privacy laws are weak enough to allow a largely unregulated marketplace in personal information and to largely allow domestic apps to gather and sell personal information, banning foreign apps that also do so won’t keep such data out of foreign hands.