You may trust the US government with your data, but what if they can't protect your data once they've obtained it?
I've never understood this idea. The US government is dangerous to anyone located in the US. The Russian government is not. It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data; it can matter a lot if the US does.
It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data
How do you figure that? Aside from the obvious credit card data/identity theft, there is also freedom of speech persecutions that can routinely happen should a foreign actor have your data and you traveled to their country.
Example: you are openly gay on your social media posts, and want to vacation in a foreign country that bans homosexuality. Maybe you are critical of the current Chinese leadership but still want to see the Great Wall. These are just low-hanging-fruit examples.
It's misguided to be so careless with your personal data, especially with regards to foreign actors.
Example: you are openly gay on your social media posts, and want to vacation in a foreign country that bans homosexuality. Maybe you are critical of the current Chinese leadership but still want to see the Great Wall. These are just low-hanging-fruit examples.
It's much more likely that they will use your to arrest their own citizens for being guilty by association... which is shitty, but far less dangerous than if your own government knows your "dirty" secrets.
At worst maybe Malaysia profiles a pot-smoking Washingtonian, but even then that person still has to break the law through possession...
Until the next presidential candidate that Russia doesn't like has all his porn and affairs and other secrets dumped online. But yes it doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world.
I've never understood this idea. The US government is dangerous to anyone located in the US. The Russian government is not. It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data; it can matter a lot if the US does.
It does if I have to visit Moscow airport on my way somewhere.
There is one main law in Russia - don't mess with Putin and his goons. So if you don't intend to do that - you are completely safe from being a target.
Fill in your own special circumstances. Going just based on his name, he sounds like he had a severely elevated risk of exposure to the Russian government. I'm pretty sure he knew about it. None of that applies to actsasbuffoon.
As an American in the US, my special circumstances dictate that the US government is very dangerous, and the largest, possibly only, risk that I'd suffer from the Russian government getting my data is that they'd share it with the US government.
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I've never understood this idea. The US government is dangerous to anyone located in the US. The Russian government is not. It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data; it can matter a lot if the US does.
How do you figure that? Aside from the obvious credit card data/identity theft, there is also freedom of speech persecutions that can routinely happen should a foreign actor have your data and you traveled to their country.
Example: you are openly gay on your social media posts, and want to vacation in a foreign country that bans homosexuality. Maybe you are critical of the current Chinese leadership but still want to see the Great Wall. These are just low-hanging-fruit examples.
It's misguided to be so careless with your personal data, especially with regards to foreign actors.
It's much more likely that they will use your to arrest their own citizens for being guilty by association... which is shitty, but far less dangerous than if your own government knows your "dirty" secrets.
At worst maybe Malaysia profiles a pot-smoking Washingtonian, but even then that person still has to break the law through possession...
Oh yeah, because police never plant drugs.
Until the next presidential candidate that Russia doesn't like has all his porn and affairs and other secrets dumped online. But yes it doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world.
It does if I have to visit Moscow airport on my way somewhere.
There is one main law in Russia - don't mess with Putin and his goons. So if you don't intend to do that - you are completely safe from being a target.
Not true. Being gay doesn't mess with anyone. Still dangerous for you in Russia.
Tell that to Alexander Litvinenko.
That poor poor Soviet Spy turned traitor. Spilling state secrets - legitimate target for assassination.
And his mistake was trusting a friend. Not some data collection Russian operation.
If you enter that game - you know the risks.
"If you enter that game - you know the risks"
That's a poor justification for executing somebody without trial.
He was a rogue traitor - what kind of trial would you like him to get?
A fair one. Like everybody else.
He was in UK. Generally speaking Russia has no jurisdiction there even if it owns most of inner london.
Fill in your own special circumstances. Going just based on his name, he sounds like he had a severely elevated risk of exposure to the Russian government. I'm pretty sure he knew about it. None of that applies to actsasbuffoon.
As an American in the US, my special circumstances dictate that the US government is very dangerous, and the largest, possibly only, risk that I'd suffer from the Russian government getting my data is that they'd share it with the US government.
The reason it matters is because foreign actors can use that data to coerce someone into doing something they may not otherwise do.
That is a painfully naive declaration.