I was originally going to ask this just regarding China, because there is a widely popular opinion that China spies on you more than other countries. This obviously isn’t true as in the West your privacy on and offline isn’t respected at all.
How is privacy (online offline) viewed here? I’m not bothered having my identity, face, fingerprints being scanned if it’s used for the betterment of the collective society. I saw those videos of people at Shanghai airport scanning their face to see which gate their plane is at and thought it was cool, but a lot of people I talk to are really uneasy about this.
China only needs to ask if they want to know something about me.
Europe can pry the tiniest bit of information from my cold dead hands.
Basically lol.
It’s a question of trust with what they’re gonna do with it. China may not have strong privacy laws (you can easily get medical data to train an AI model with for example, I assume it’s anonymized) but you also trust the government not to use it against you.
Some people would be surprised at how free the chinese are to just yell at police or government.
Can’t say the same in Europe or north America where they need to pay ads to tell us we have freedom of speech, while the police punches you in the face for protesting for Palestine.
I don’t mind if one gets my info, either it doesn’t do anything or its even beneficial to society.
I do mind that the latter however knows as little about me as possible, because stuff they know about me today can bite me in the ass 5 or even 10 years from now.