Exactly. What's illegal here is perfectly fine in China. Let's not equate the two.
US government may get data from US companies but at least it takes a warrant. Chinese government straight up owns the servers.
Then why would they stop after it was declared illegal?
On December 16, 2005, The New York Times reported that the Bush administration had been conducting surveillance against U.S. citizens without specific approval from the FISA court for each case since 2002.
In 2011, the Obama administration secretly won permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans' communications in its massive databases.
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