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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle (www.wired.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

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[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't really need to disable JS. uBlock Origin is enough, it seems.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile the US surveillance state does it as a full-time job.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I personally use Noscript, it gives control to allow javascript.