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[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Correlation attacks, China is king of hoovering up data.

Overly dramatic example: you are in the armed forces, you have a TikTok account, you post a bunch of shit that shows you are in the armed forces. You get deployed for some covert fuckabout and are told to leave your phone at home. You turn off your phone, pick up 3 of your buddies in your Chinese EV and drive to the base/airport/sea port. Dozens of people do this and by seeing the pattern China knows that a bunch of armed forces are being told to quietly deploy.

A less dramatic example might be figuring out where politicians are by knowing where their employees are.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody hoovers up more data than the US.

Remember when Elon remotely unlocked that cybertruck recently and pulled up its video stream?

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We have roughly three million ways to say "US bad" right now, and you pick a less than true one.

US government data collection is not on the scale of China. The US is limited in what it gets from companies. China is absolutely not.

Yes, the US should absolutely have more data protection laws. The EU is better. China is absolutely not.

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