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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 months agodeally they’d pass comprehensive privacy protection laws to setup standards that both domestic and foreign companies would be subject to.
No, no, no. That would mean dismantling PRISM and the FISA. Gathering data on citizens is only bad when China does it.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, to be fair, both are extremely bad and should be stopped, but a hostile foreign country gather data and pushing propaganda on your citizens IS worse than you or non-hostile foreign countries doing it.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I would argue that gathering data about your own citizens is actively worse than china doing it; an average US citizen has a lot more to lose if the 3-letter-agencies or the police use it against them, because those are who you would have to deal with in person.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Valid point. I think the issue is that we know there is no good reason for China to have that data, and we know that they are hostile, so it’s an easy decision.