China Has a Problem with Data Leaks. One Reason Is Its Surveillance State

It has nothing to do with "Surveillance State", it just is poor security, and poor handling of the data

The fact that we let big companies harvest our data, train ML models with it, sell them to 3rd party and all that kind of stuff, is the reason why we are not careful about it and that kind of stuff is forced to happen

Their data leaks is a warning for us to finally care about it, otherwise nothing will change

The "Chinese Surveillance State" is bad propaganda and is counter productive since we are headed toward that direction too, for the better

eh....if we took nations are the unit of analysis and added up the frequency and severity of data leaks, we likely would see US as the ignominious leader. As the Kukumber mentioned, the issue is data collection and data security, not state governance