State-mandated privacy standards coexist with mass state data access.
Evidence
Perhaps it was naive to expect the legal institutions of market societies to be the site at which general resistance to capitalism’s expansion could take practical form. In China, where data platforms have emerged in close alliance with the state, there are signs of the state intervening to insist on some privacy standards, but at the same time, it is well-known that platforms consistently give the Chinese state access to their data. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 557
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the China-vs-West data governance split that rivals and complements the Western attention/surveillance school’s blind spots. — connects to: States now depend on corporate data knowledge about their own citizens. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 88; Property-based and data-portability arguments for privacy have limits and alternatives — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 1101; Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Property-based and data-portability arguments for privacy have limits and alternatives
#complicates(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1101 - State surveillance can self-censor personal correspondence among citizens
#expands(0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 586 - Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic
#complicates(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601