But > 9/10 Europeans use whastapp / messenger for daily basis.
9/10 european companies decide to use Aws, azure or gcp, instructions of Scaleway or ovh.
9/10 europeans use Chatgpt or Claude instead of mistral or Lumo
Lumo shoutout!
Why on earth would we!? China especially don't have the best track record, and the US is the laughing stock of the world at this point, not to trusted with anything.
Definitely, and "data" is just a single bullet point on the list lol
It'd be like going to a quack doctor and saying "No way am I letting you operate on my brain! ...open heart surgery? Yeah, that's fine" lol
I despise the US from the bottom of my heart, and I am a big China fan, and yet at the same time I don't want anyone to handle our data. We need data sovereignty. Our data stays here and that's it. Not in the US. Not in China. Not anywhere else.
I'm American and don't trust U.S. firms with data.
To be clear, I also don't trust Chinese firms.
I don't trust my own government, and have no reason to trust anyone else at this point, let alone for profit companies. It's bleak.
I use DeepSeek, because I feel it is less nefarious.
Good, also don't trust european firms either, don't trust any corporations with your data.
It's amazing how many people cheer for corporations. There's few consistents in the world but a big one is corporations are not your friend.
How many of those 8 are doing anything, ANYTHING, about it though?
As an American, I also don’t trust the US firms with my data.
I don't trust anyone with my data. Regardless of their nationality.
How about, if your data can be compromised, it's not safe anywhere?
Don't kid yourselves. Once Europe develops its own big tech, it's going to be just as untrustworthy. But at least it will be your untrustworthy.
It’s the EU trying to read everyone’s chat messages because .001% of the population might use the technology for sending CSAM.
It’s the EU trying to read everyone’s chat messages because .001% of the population might use the technology for sending CSAM.
That's only the excuse the politicians are using. In reality there's a combination of intelligence services and datamining operations pushing for scanning ordinary law-abiding citizens communications.
For now, the EU has strong data protection laws that the US and China don't have. Although it is true that stupid ideas like Chat Control keep popping up every couple of years.
Ideally, though, you put them in countries close to the EU but not part of it, like Switzerland.
Data control laws to prevent the sale of data not the government use of data.
Europe tech often times are open source with commercial service.
At least it's better than whatever Google, Microsoft, or Tencent.
Honestly, I prefer someone else's untrustworthy.
I don't trust China at all, but I trust them over the US, if only because they have no stake in me as a foreigner.
I honestly feel safer with my data in a foreign authorities hands than domestic.
China can't do dick to me nor should they want to. I'm just a lil guy! The US does nasty things to its citizens on the reg, I don't wanna be caught up in that!
they can do plenty enough to be worried. maybe they can not harm you physically (for now), but by having access to details of the private lives of people, their conversations, and being able to see how they form their opinions, they can use that information to determine how can they reshape public opinion on topics of their interests. this information can be used by themselves, or they can pass it to an ally, and it could be used to change almost anything, like interfere with elections, or further erode the need for privacy so that people are willingly giving up even more data to them
Watching all the new laws spew out in Europe I don't trust them, either.
I'm down to Romania and Iceland, now.
Been dumping German stuff like a plague lately, and already pulled all data out of Canada.
I have one thing in Amsterdam, but their laws have been getting worse and worse, and they're... Nine, I think it is, eyes which is bad for trusting them with your data. Even Switzerland is getting sus af.
I also don't trust us with our data.
Even more they don't trust china...
Lol who trusts any firm with their data?
20% of Europeans
Yeah I wouldn't lol
If we’re being real I don’t really trust anyone with my data.
Don't trust anyone, not even yourself.
Full time ass job to keep up with every single security bulletin.
I dont trust the US with my data ... or anything. This place is run by literal idiots and/or criminals.
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.
I don't trust politico with my news articles
Seems like 2 out of 10 Europeans need to get their head checked.
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.
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.
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