Comment on ‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People are starting to realise that the biggest survilliance state in the world is the US.

  And they want you to think it’s China or Russia to deflect attention.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s all three of them.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    US sucks but there are more cameras per person elsewhere, more restrictions elsewhere. I think they are sinister and depraved but likely just like the rest, not worst.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s still actually the UK. Just in terms of cameras.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a question similar to legalization of sex work.

  I mean, selling data on someone is not cool. But what’s completely illegal, but in demand by everyone, becomes something completely unregulated in practice and still a huge market. While otherwise it could be at least partially constrained by some norms. Similarly sex work is very much not cool. But at least in some countries it gives smaller chance of being murdered to workers.

  So - I live in Russia, I’m not sure I like the way it happens here more. Especially when combined with slow encroachment of mandatory centralized services for everything connected to government, municipal services, utilities, documents. They want control like in China, but can’t be bothered with security at least like in China.

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