SnowdenHeroOfOurTime comments on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.

[+] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org -7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

If you think you’re safe from government observation just because you don’t live in China

I think you know without doubt that this is something NO ONE ever ever ever said. You know this. And yet still -- you want to make this about the united states. Maybe you can explain a way that this got brought up without China shills infecting the thread?

Because the article is not about the US. It's not.

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I didn't mention the US.

The article makes it sound like it's UNUSUAL that a phone app is spying on its users and sending user data to the government. It's not an exception, it's the rule. People pointing this out are doing you a favor, because the article's framing would otherwise lead you to believe this is a China problem and not a tech problem.

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[+] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org -7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

no, people who do this are shilling for China and/or tiktok. we all know this.

and yes the raw keyboard data going directly from your fingers to the government is not something that likely happens in the US, so either way this is a false equivalence.

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

I'm not defending China.

the raw keyboard data going directly from your fingers to the government is not something that likely happens in the US, so either way this is a false equivalence.

Again, I never mentioned the US.

What does it matter if the data is routed to the government server first or second? Blanket data collection is nefarious no matter who is doing it, but it landing in the hands of any government is dangerous. It isn't somehow less dangerous just because it hits a private server first (although it's harder to tell spying is happening, so in that respect it may be worse)

E2E encryption should be standard across all tech platforms in every country, full stop.

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