China is cracking down on data privacy

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/07/tech/china-didi-data-tech-crackdown-intl-hnk/index.html

@lupyuen No offense but fuck china.. only time they do anything involving "privacy" is as a sledgehammer to fuck its people over. A country that is striving to have 24/7 surveillance and facial recognition of its entire population, tracking their every movement, has no right to use the word privacy IMO.

@freemo Unfortunately some of us in Southeast Asia need to use China apps: WeChat, Taobao, ...

So this crackdown on data privacy is good for us, I think.

@lupyuen I would imagine the "crackdown" will just ensure its easier for China to spy and harder for companies. The latter is ok, the former not so much.

@freemo @lupyuen

I just seen another version of this story:
https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/china-to-us-two-can-play-at-technological-war/

@popolon @freemo I get the feeling that China Govt is worried about losing control to these powerful apps. Hence the crackdown on Alibaba and friends