8 in 10 Europeans don’t trust US, Chinese firms with data – POLITICO
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      • Brummbaer@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        50 minutes ago

        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.

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    40·
    6 hours ago

    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.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      141·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        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.

        • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          2 hours ago

          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.

        • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          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.

  • Vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
    42·
    3 hours ago

    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)

  • shirasho@feddit.onlineEnglish
    40·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      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.

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    10 hours ago

    As someone born and living in the US, I also don’t trust the US or China… or pretty much anyone with my data.