Comment on Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data
lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 2 days agoMy argument is that western media is nothing but ‘china bad’ while allowing meta, stellar wind, gawd I feel like that SpongeBob meme where he is pointing at literally all the things… what I am saying is that things need to be addressed domestically but the media says no look over there where you have literally no agency to change things instead of fixing the things here where you have, well, almost no power
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
So again, you are okay with China doing it, but not okay with US doing it? That’s a bit hypocritical, no? I for one say fuck both for doing this.
There are many goods things about China, their total invasion of privacy is not one of them.
bort@hexbear.net 2 days ago
Yeah I don’t really understand people in this thread jumping to defend of whatabout. This isn’t good.
Reality in China is that you can’t expect privacy from the state. It’s especially true in that basically everything goes through WeChat, which the state have direct virtual access to, even without your device.
On the other hand, it’s unlikely for the state ever to care about you if you’re just a normal person. Also, they do legitimately seem to care about protecting data from private companies, which is a silver lining at the very least.