The U.S. criticizes China for implementing a police state.
But humans are humans, and the urge to control other humans trumps all culture.
But humans are humans, and the urge to control other humans trumps all culture.
It's a system by which bystanders are footing the bill themselves to add nodes to surveillance networks that may be used in an authoritarian function with little permission from the node owner in the unforeseeable future.
Not live streamed to police. Warrant required for location data last I checked.
> computers
Don't generally share anything other than analytics data. Might upload content to one or more clouds with user permission. Data certainly not easily available to police without a warrant.
> commercial CTV
Again, not live streamed to police. Access often requested (and typically granted) in person during the course of an investigation.
> commercial data
And again, not live streamed to police. Warrant typically required.
Commerical data is definately being provided to police and other government agencies without warrants.
I never claimed they were.
> Commerical data is definately being provided to police and other government agencies without warrants.
Obviously that claim is true because someone somewhere has almost certainly done so at some point. However, it is a misrepresentation of the overall situation. The vast majority of large tech companies have public policies clearly stating that they require a warrant or subpoena in order to hand over data. Moreover, court records would appear to indicate that this really is the case.
Many of your comments on this article contain non sequiturs and false equivalencies. Honestly, you don't appear to be engaging in this discussion in good faith.
And either way, something being legal does not stop it from being a big problem.
Have you actually ever visited China? The US incarcerates, bombs and has more murders (^apart from a few 3rd world hellholes) per capita than anywhere else. What type of government do you call that? "Glorious Democracy"?
This hyperbole helps no one and this forum deserves better. 1 in 5 people on Earth live there, ascribing all the bad things to that many people is disingenuous at best and malicious jingoism at worst.
Similarly, it seems a democratic hellhole would still be democratic.
Not quite everywhere else... unless you are adding # of bombs + number of prisoners + number of murders... not sure that is a meaningful number though :)
The other keep eroding rights slowly while people fail to notice just how much power they're amassing.
It's just that the people without this urge wind up living in BFE or the ghetto (because why would you pay big bucks to live in a suburb if not for the conformism/homogeneity) and the net result is most of the people living in high class suburbs where there's a Ring on every other door have this urge.