tae_glas

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China’s chilling stolen data plot for everyone in Britain: China has waged a multi-year hacking campaign that harvested personal data belonging to every British citizen, experts have warned in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

the article feels like whataboutery in itself, imo. gchq's main thing is mass surveillance of uk citizens. if they didn't steal & store people's data, then that stolen data wouldn't be stored in one convenient central location from which to steal it 🤷

edit: i do get that it's not great that this has happened, of course. i just don't think surveillance should be seen as inevitable in the first place.

China’s chilling stolen data plot for everyone in Britain: China has waged a multi-year hacking campaign that harvested personal data belonging to every British citizen, experts have warned in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

until they have a problem with bringing in digital IDs, and the amount of data being stored by google/meta/amazon/apple/etc, this just feels like sinophobia & xenophobia. stealing & storing our data's bad in general, not just when china or russia want to do it 🤷