• inari@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    Funny how we don’t frame it as “America may be spying on you” when American companies do the exact same shit

    • HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      Funny how we don’t frame it “what the fuck does the coffee machine need the internet connection for” when corporates release products like this

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      Yes but chinese companies are required by law to give the data to the goverment.

      US companies do it from good will.

      + it doesn’t really matter as they all broadcast your data on RTB markets for free to everybody including russia and china.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        Small correction: US companies sell it to the US government.

        How else are those tax dollars supposed to stimulate the economy? Everybody wins this way! So much winning! I’m so tired of winning!

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    2 days ago

    Imagine saying out loud “Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989” and half the ‘smart’ devices in your home bricks

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      Isn’t it public info that Chinese companies are obligated by law to share information with the government?

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        Isn’t it public info that the USA has backdoors in every CPU (IME for example), or that NSA collects literally every piece of data going to and from USA, or that the USA illegally spies on its allies in the NATO by tapping phones and transcontinental internet cables? Or that trump literally called for Snowden to be executed for making all of that public?

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          Illegally? No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other’s dissidents. Just because the US has gone off the rails doesnt mean the EU was innocent.

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            No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other’s dissidents

            Ah yes, well known dissidents like

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            Angela Merkel and other EU officials

            Meanwhile in Denmark

            In August 2020, Trine Bramsen who was recently appointed Danish minister of defence in June of the previous year was told of the operation, following which agency head Lars Findsen and three other officials were suspended.[7]

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer

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    1 day ago

    I think we’re all a little more worried about the child trafficking genocidal state of Israel.

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      And letting the US government spy on you helps with that?

      In reality, people are built for the stone age and a little out of their depth with 21st century technology. Unless there’s some visual indicator of the spying their normal social instincts don’t kick in.