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Wait - "Chinese software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information" Doing this is now a bad thing? I thought it was the fundamental idea behind the tech industry.

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It is (sadly) but also it depends where that data goes. From the US government perspective:

- data goes to US corporations == fine

- data goes to CCP == not fine

> I thought it was the fundamental idea behind the tech industry.

It is. But it seems that lately governments in their own silos are thinking I can do it, you cant.

PS: Not saying in any way to allow capture of vast swaths of information to anyone :)

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