Hoping this sets a precedent for the same kind of regulation about non-Chinese corporations. Otherwise it just comes across as sinophobic grandstanding and not actually about protecting the privacy of the end-user.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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The bavarian police just implemented fucking Palantir for their own use starting in august, so nah it's just sinophobia.
You are using acts by Bavarian police to say that acts by Berlin privacy officers are sinophobic.
OC it is about that.
Same with Tik Tok, they don't like news they can't control and censor.
https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7498354878473932054
Or simply bcs they can't compete with Chinese tech. (Huawei etc)
Oh man, can you imagine that??
Glad none of this ever happened before, right???
"Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies," she added.
And that's different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.
At least formally, with US companies there are agreements that the data on european citizen need to stay in EU, with China no
Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.
It's simple: America Good, China Bad.
There isn't much more depth to it than this. BTW even Lemmy is sadly suffering from the same brainrot.
Yes. But "America bad, China good" is also brainrot.
I don't think China is good. I think China is a strong country doing normal superpower stuff.
The difference is China doesn't start wars and isn't out to overthrow other countries governments.
Their leadership doesn't act like clowns either, they have the seriousness that the western world seems to have lost after everyone collectively decided that voting far-right is "based" for "owning the libs".
So all in all I expected people to hate China less than the US. But online propaganda speaks louder than reason these days.
Well.
Not out to overthrow European governments.
I don't think you've looked closely enough at China, then.
In contrast, I'm sure you've watched every "China Bad" propaganda video on YouTube, and you're still itching for more.
But I encourage you to go visit it once and see for yourself what it's really like.
Sure, as long as you also remove ChatGPT.
Do chatgpt, claude, gemini, llama, etc keep user data in the EU?
Sure ;)
Yes. You've heard about billions being invested in new data centers in the EU?
Then there's also the "EU-US Data Privacy Framework". People here don't really understand what the GDPR is about.
Regarding DPF: https://iapp.org/news/a/schrems-addresses-emerging-questions-around-eu-us-data-privacy-framework. It's unlikely to hold unfortunately.
Commissioner and his friends use those apps so can't ban them.
Germany is known in Europe for being one of the biggest wh*res of the USA so that doesn't surprise me more than that.
I will say it is fantastic you can run deepseek models locally
Some of the deepseek r1 distills are still the best small models. The 8b ones are good and can run on a lot of devices.
Why not run Qwen.
Not deepseek but still its better.
the distills are good for their sizes but not even close to being comparable to the full model in quality
But American companies harvesting our data and sending it straight into the hands of the Trump administration and his harem of tech whores like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Altman are a-okay. I'd rather have China harvest my data, because China doesn't have as much influence over my life here in Germany as the US does.
As an American, i would rather cpc or russian agents poison me than the dumb totally avoidable shit thats about to happen with all that data in this country.
I'm curious whether Deepseek will gaf about this. They've been rather uninterested in commercialization, and the app is mainly a way of showing off their model, which itself is released open-weights. In fact, it's literally impossible to spend money in the app! They sell tokens but it's API-only, and you can't spend it in the app.
So it's entirely possible the Deepseek will shrug, let their app be banned in Germany, and keep doing what they're doing.
Why not just leave it up to the users? Maybe put a warning?
Why does the government have to ban everything and treat us like children?
Because most people reason like children and act like children.
Had one dude buy a bunch of those none refillable vapes. Ran around with 3 of them and talked about that the government should ban them because people like himself throw them in the woods when done. That is a real person.
Politicians also act like children. There's no evidence they get their authority from being either smarter or more competent than an average person.
Congratulations, this is how you get exploited by corporations.