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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by toss1 on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:44AM (#32356845)
A bit of a nit to clarify:

It seems your actual complaint is that if US Law Enforcement decides you are a target of interest, they would think to go to Amazon and Amazon's reputation is that they'd cooperate in handing over data, whereas the LE officers would neither bother to ask, nor expect cooperation from the Chinese companies.

The Chinese (or anyone) can certainly turn over their data to people who can arrest you, if they decide you are a target.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by chrischen on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:21PM (#32359108)
Chinese companies operating in the US still have to abide by US laws, so they are under the same jurisdiction that compels Amazon to turn over data to law enforcement. If Chinese companies don't comply, they get kicked out of the market.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by toss1 on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#32359399)
True, I was thinking only of the Chinese main companies, not their US subsidiaries. So, yes, there really is no advantage there.
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