To be fair, I don't trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: "Where there's a trough, there will be pigs." Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.
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Yes, bit wary of these current trends that try to paint Europe as this holier than thou place where everyone only thinks about the polar bears and UBI, when the truth is we have plenty of capitalist sharks in our ranks that would be happy burning it all down for the next quarterly results.
Well... Given that the average person neither knows what data they are effectively giving US and Chinese companies, nor does anything against it, this poll is asking the wrong questions. Massive amounts of data collected for every single individual via ad-based surveillance (US) and IOT devices phoning home (China) is the reality we live in today. But the average person does not know about it and therefore can't even grasp what is done to them. They don't trust them, but they hand over the data anyway. This is basically a poll amongst cows in the slaughterhouse.
I don't even trust my own PC with my data.
good, I don't either and I live here.
I don't trust any firm
I live in the US and I dont trust US companies with my data either. They either sell it or are handled by easily exploitable systems developed offshore in India.
So, in that sense I do not trust the US, China, India, or Russia with my data and avoid software developed in any of these places when feasibly possible.
Man, that's a pretty limited app list.
Good lord, what’s wrong with the other two?
One of them is probably steam lol.
They over-consumed the goods from those countries and they lost their minds.
As someone born and living in the US, I also don't trust the US or China... or pretty much anyone with my data.
You can trust meeeeeeeee! What's your first pets maiden name?
Data isn't very valuable if you can't transmit it.
At some point you need to trust someone
I think this is the right mentality to have.
4/5 of the people i know in the US don't trust the US.
You can make that 6/7 (my wife and I).
6 7
At this point how does anyone trust anyone with their data?
Self-plagiarizing:
Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.
Coincidentally(TM), Polish trust nearly triples over more "Western" countries, which shows that this clearly isn't a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim "8 in 10 Europeans". (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn't claim this.)
