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Remind me again who was wiretapping Merkel's cell phone? China right? Oh wait no sorry, it was the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel
Who was caught wiretapping.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad
It is a very long Wikipedia article (as is anything involving CIA activities abroad, to be sure).
How about I share something from my own country. What I reckon is that only some of my data goes to the US government through Google, Microsoft etc. while the Chinese government controls corporations like tencent much more than the US government controls US corporations. Besides all that, services from Microsoft and Google are much harder to avoid than for example tiktok and Huawei. So the US is getting my data no matter what, I might as well limit how much of it goes to china.
welcome traveller from an alternate universe where Snowden leaks didn't happen 😂
In the US it is the big corporations that control the government.
Vibes-based threat modeling, a classic.
looks like US propaganda machine is working smoothly in Europe