An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by borski on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:35AM (#28097490)

Asking in earnest: are you speaking in absolute terms or relative terms? That is, does the percentage of funding (as compared to the rest of the budget) exceed most other countries’ military funding, or just the absolute amount?

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by PartiallyTyped on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:26AM (#28098427)

Absolute.

Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.

Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.

[1] https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/tr...

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by Wameaw on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:46AM (#28098546)

Thanks for the link, but have you read it?

"the only country that spends more on military is China"

1 1 United States 778 4.4 -10 3.7 4.8 39

2 2 China [252] 1.9 76 [1.7] [1.7] [13]

3 3 India 72.9 2.1 34 2.9 2.7 3.7

:facepalm:

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by PartiallyTyped on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:31AM (#28098838)

I compared US' __police__ spending of $100 billion, to the __military__ spending of other countries.

I assume you missed that. The comparison is not between militaries, but US' police vs the military.

:facepalm:

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by Wameaw on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:03PM (#28102293)

Ay, I did miss that, didn't go up enough to see the parent :facepalm: China do spend more on defense than policing, at lease nominally, per page 5 of the 2021 budget proposal hosted on Xinhua:

"National defense spending was 1.267992 trillion yuan, 100% of the budgeted figure. Public security expenses totaled 183.59 billion yuan, 100.2% of the budgeted figure. "

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/download/20210313budget.pdf

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