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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Teever on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:59AM (#32357085)
China could easily turn that data over to American law enforcement if they wanted to see a person they considered a threat to them arrested but that person was outside of their jurisdiction.

China and Amazon are both threats to privacy.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Nuzzerino on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:47AM (#32357824)
Are there known examples of this happening?
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by bigcat12345678 on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:22PM (#32359120)
It has not happened, does not mean that it could not happen. Chinese companies are automatically more cooperative than us companies because they are trained to cooperate in their home country already.

But so far I suppose the indigenous big tech spying apparatus has been effective enough to not need foreign operators help.

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