• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They’re definitely grabbing analytics and statistics. But so is AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Google, Microsoft.

    If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.

    But if the US government told them to do it, they would comply and then have a gag order slapped against them to keep them from telling you it happened.

    Huawei is beholden to the Chinese government. So it works kind of in the opposite way.

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      10 months ago

      If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.

      More likely they’ll send an invoice. They’re already selling your data to them. (And everyone else.)

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        10 months ago

        Selling data for a specific individual will get the company in trouble, if they’re caught. However, it is reasonably common to ask for ‘data on people who live at this location, make workday trips to this location, female, and used to date me’.

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      10 months ago

      If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.

      Haha what? You think there’s any chance in hell that China doesn’t get what they want from any US company? Check out this video, this is what happens when a random American says something China doesn’t like. Now go ahead and picture those companies not bending over backwards to kiss Xi’s ass if it means affecting the bottom line.

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        10 months ago

        John Cena is not a random American. You and I are closer to random than John Cena, a man who is internationally famous and a professional actor. That’s like saying Tom Cruise is a random American, when you know exactly who I’m talking about without googling.

        That said, yes, China censors American media and actors, and it’s horrid. The fact that films get made in America and edited for China and America, is a crime to any artful visions the writers, actors, directors, editors and more may have had. But China itself doesn’t have the time and energy to stop you or I online all the time, it barely can do it within the Great Firewall, due to the sheer scope of the population and area the country covers.