Although that's not *nothing*, the question is who exercises admnistrative control of that data. If the Chinese government demands data from ByteDance's management, and ByteDance's management complies, that data is not safe. Of course, even in the US a federal agency can obtain a secret warrant which enables them to help themselves to your private data held by a third party, and because it's *secret* you can't challenge the warrant's legality.

The smart thing is don't put anything sensitive onto any kind of social media. Now some metadata may itself by sensitive for certain persons, like your approximate location at various times. Such persons shouldn't use social media at all, even if the data is hosted in the EU, which generally has the best data privacy protections in the world, because there is *no* country in the world where a company can defy a lawful warrant, whatever "lawful" means in that country.

These women committed treason and should get 100 years, or better, executed.
Then we have multiple American born, but Chinese parents, who pushed 2 sailers to betray America and turn over secrets( like trump has most likely done ).
Add in other traitors who are tried for this.
Then we have 3 recent interesting ones: Mueller pretty much said that Trump was guilty, even though Trump/barr cut investigation way short.
Or how about Menendez who is being tried, but not for treason?
the same for crueler in Texas.
All of these politicians took bribes and then screwed over America doing what foreign governments wanted. Why are these 3 not tried for treason?

Those were the flip-phone days!

Before Gorilla Glass half the drops of flat phones were fatal.

You nailed a perfect "that's what she said" post.

Bravo.

"Conspiracy Theory" is a phrase (spell) that means, "shut up or be ostracized!"

The history of Humanity is a very long list of conspiracies.

And *everybody* knows this.

#DADA

> the only civilized country in the region.

Nobody believes civilized countries have multiple classes of people with different sets of human rights.

And if you say, "but what about Country X," I am likely to agree with you that it is uncivilized.

Taylor Swift took her private jet to argue against this on Twitter.

We should see their last reports.

Somebody leak it.

It's a nonzero threat of human extinction so that needs to be seen.

I'd say 0.5% but that's too high to be swept under the rug.

Back when Fraunhofer GmbH was enforcing MP3 patents against open source (Fedora, et. al.) how would this sort of funding have affected ffmpeg?

Will it in the future?

Wrong. Western nations do not have laws that says that it is OK for citizens to crack systems in your nation.
Xi would get mad at us for doing to you what you are doing to the west.
That does not mean that western groups are not targeting your nation and Russia, however, there is a difference in having military/intelligence target your military/intelligence, vs your nation allowing citizens to legally sell drugs to the west, esp to America, as well as legally being able to crack these systems.
HUGE difference. For all intents and purposes, your nation's leaders are 2-face since they are in a cold war with the west, while pretending otherwise.

AI does substantially the same thing that humans do when they are "inspired by" other artists. Moreover, if it's legal for humans, then it's cannot intrinsically be illegal when a human directs a machine to do it. But even if it somehow was illegal, that would only push back the date to the oldest extant copyrights -- about 100 years. AI could, from there, be used to "evolve" music in the same way people did, producing sounds and songs that are ranked and culled through popularity rankings, until it either arrives at the same point as humans have, or maybe even something more popular. So this is a losing battle in any case. Embrace the AI.

Just about 25 years too late to matter.

China, Iran, N. Korea, Russia are all directing their crackers to attack the west. In fact, both China and Russia passed laws well over 10 years ago that said anybody that cracked their nation would be in serious trouble, HOWEVER, if they cracked western companies and government AND shared information with government, they were fine.

I also heard that Russia is supplying Stormshadow missiles to be launched directly into civilian population centers in Britain.

Or something like that.

Visa recently added a "feature to prevent problems with expiring credit cards" so that if you burn a cc# to cut off an abusive merchant, Visa will "helpfully" inform the merchant of your new cc#.

One more step towards Programmable Surveillable Money.