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1. Covidiocracy (ampersine@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 06:56:34 JST Covidiocracy

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   • Lauren Weinstein

   @lauren
   Yup. If China wants a massive collection of Americans' telemetry, PII, location data, etc. they're not gonna risk exfiltrating it from our phones. They're just gonna buy it from *American* companies who collect it all and would be thrilled to sell it to them. And very few in the government seem to care about that part.

   • Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 06:56:36 JST Lauren Weinstein

     I'm not a fan of TikTok. But as far as I'm concerned, these bipartisan efforts to "ban TikTok" (and some other widely used Chinese services/products) based on "spying" concerns are essentially based on political bull. That's not to say that China doesn't spy (as does the U.S.) -- but going after these widely examined products and services is -- as far as I'm concerned -- nonsense. They're almost certainly not how China does their spying!

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.