Re:FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security c...
by fragsworth on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @06:49PM
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> any market that does share collected data with the US (or allows US companies to carry out this collection in their markets) will somehow "not be a threat" to privacy or national security.
I'm fine with politicians coming up with some politically acceptable reason to ban Chinese apps when the real reason is tit-for-tat economics. I'm sick of China banning outside IP (and in many cases stealing it for themselves). It hurts a lot of us, including game developers.
It's tit for tat. Or tit for tok if you will. My only hope is they apply it consistently to all Chinese IP.
From 2013 -
"Court rules NSA doesn’t have to reveal its semi-secret relationship with Google" (https://macdailynews.com/2013/05/22/court-rules-nsa-doesnt-h...)
"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say" (https://perma.cc/VY62-7WX5)
"Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans" (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-m...)
The US doesn't want to compete on level field. It feels it "owns" modern mass data collection and surveillance, and it's more peeved that it doesn't have access to other markets' data than it cares about any purported espionage.
My bet is placed. China won't open its data to the US, so these bans will continue to escalate. However, any market that does share collected data with the US (or allows US companies to carry out this collection in their markets) will somehow "not be a threat" to privacy or national security.