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This isn’t that. This isn’t “let us collect data on you so we can aggregate it and monetize it, it’s buried in the EULA.”
This is state-sponsored actual malware being used to identify, target, track specific individuals.
Yeah, and?
Do you honestly believe there's a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?
Maybe. The bad actor here seems to be the government of China, and the linked page says:
I can imagine them casting a wide net.
#1 reason I'll never visit china, as much as there seems to be amazing things to see there