I do trust Chinese a lot more than muricans. And don't use any american product (to my current knowledge).
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Good lord, what’s wrong with the other two?
They over-consumed the goods from those countries and they lost their minds.
One of them is probably steam lol.
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As someone born and living in the US, I also don't trust the US or China... or pretty much anyone with my data.
You can trust meeeeeeeee! What's your first pets maiden name?
I just asked it. It's "Woof".
Weird, my pet said the same. Is your password also ************* ?
No, mine is *****************, but I honestly like yours better.
GayGoatFucker has a special ring to it that ***************** doesn't have.
I think this is the right mentality to have.
Data isn't very valuable if you can't transmit it.
At some point you need to trust someone
To be fair, I don't trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: "Where there's a trough, there will be pigs." Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.
Yes, bit wary of these current trends that try to paint Europe as this holier than thou place where everyone only thinks about the polar bears and UBI, when the truth is we have plenty of capitalist sharks in our ranks that would be happy burning it all down for the next quarterly results.
To be fair, we have the GDPR in Europe, which puts people at ease. However, this could be weakened or rid of entirely in order for the EU to become more "competitive" some day. Even the climate change goals of the EU has already been weakened so that we could catch up to the AI race. As sad as it is, it's just the realpolitik influencing decisions.
The EU keeps coming within inches of voting for making secure encryption impossible. Chat Control would have been worse for privacy than anything the US has.
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And every year new open mass surveillance worse than the UK and US attempts to be passed and barely fails.
GDPR also doesn't mean shit if it is barely enforced against large companies or the fines aren't revenue-proportional.. Then it is just a cost of doing business.
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I live in the US and I dont trust US companies with my data either. They either sell it or are handled by easily exploitable systems developed offshore in India.
So, in that sense I do not trust the US, China, India, or Russia with my data and avoid software developed in any of these places when feasibly possible.
Even FOSS software? The Linux Foundation's headquartered in the US.
I do get the rationale, but honestly you could just change that to "proprietary software" and you'd have more options with just as much data security.
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Man, that's a pretty limited app list.
I don't trust politico with my news articles
4/5 of the people i know in the US don't trust the US.
You can make that 6/7 (my wife and I).
6 7
You might not, but I do 🤷
At this point how does anyone trust anyone with their data?
good, I don't either and I live here.
The Chinese can do less harm with my data than the US and it's allies.
For now.
The problem is that once it's out there, you can't take it back.
Okay but what's the risk if the cccp will find out I can't write a fucking yaml for the life of me?
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Of course.
Personally I have given up on that. I try to either use false information when they don't need the real data or throwaway" emails and SEPA and one time credit card numbers for banking stuff.
I don't trust any company with my data ever, so I'm constantly paranoid in a way.
I don't trust any firm
I don't even trust my own PC with my data.
I don't even trust myself with my data.
I only trust math with my data (i.e. encryption...)
Well... Given that the average person neither knows what data they are effectively giving US and Chinese companies, nor does anything against it, this poll is asking the wrong questions. Massive amounts of data collected for every single individual via ad-based surveillance (US) and IOT devices phoning home (China) is the reality we live in today. But the average person does not know about it and therefore can't even grasp what is done to them. They don't trust them, but they hand over the data anyway. This is basically a poll amongst cows in the slaughterhouse.
Self-plagiarizing:
Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.
Coincidentally(TM), Polish trust nearly triples over more "Western" countries, which shows that this clearly isn't a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim "8 in 10 Europeans". (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn't claim this.)
Hmmm… 🤔
(I know alternatives, especially “truly” European are pretty much not existent, those 8 europeans still could’ve chosen one that’s respects their data a bit more than Google does if they don’t trust them I feel like)
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