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8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data (www.politico.eu)
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I honestly feel safer with my data in a foreign authorities hands than domestic.

China can't do dick to me nor should they want to. I'm just a lil guy! The US does nasty things to its citizens on the reg, I don't wanna be caught up in that!

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I'd like to think they'd be more accommodating.

    "Ahhh Mr. Albatross, we've seen your social media traffic and we've been expecting you! In anticipation of your arrival, we've prepared some lovely poop, if you would just step this way..."

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    they can do plenty enough to be worried. maybe they can not harm you physically (for now), but by having access to details of the private lives of people, their conversations, and being able to see how they form their opinions, they can use that information to determine how can they reshape public opinion on topics of their interests. this information can be used by themselves, or they can pass it to an ally, and it could be used to change almost anything, like interfere with elections, or further erode the need for privacy so that people are willingly giving up even more data to them

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