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I feel like we’re entering a world where you have competing surveillance states, and citizens from either would be behooved to use technology from the other. For the simple fact that these two states don’t cooperate, using the other sides technology is inherently safer. They have far fewer manners of or financial interests in fucking you.
Yeah. At this point as an American I'm way less worried about in the Chinese government tracking me than I am with the US government. The Chinese government is evil, but I don't live in China.
Yes but never forget they aren't above building profiles on people and selling them. The US government regularly buys these sort of data packages as a loophole to bypass constitutional protections against search and seizures.
Yep, this is why my security cameras are all from Chinese companies. Though I guess the NSA still owns the Wifi lol