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Why aren't Chinese people afraid of US companies collecting their data?
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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Sampling bias from the fact that you're reading posts written in English, not Mandarin.
(By the way, I'm actually not as concerned with Chinese companies collecting my data as I am with American companies doing it, precisely because China doesn't have jurisdiction over me, while the US does. Similarly, I would expect Chinese people to be more afraid of Chinese data collection than they are of US data collection.)