China is always used as the primary example of a surveillance state, people constantly talk about how dystopian it is and how everything you do in public or online is tracked. I have always been skeptical about these claims and know how hypocritical they are because of the amount of surveillance that happens in the west but I want to know if China is really that bad in regards to privacy.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I don’t think India is a surveillance state. At least it doesn’t look like one so far. The biometric data that is collected doesn’t seem to have been consolidated so far and used by the state. At least not in a way that is publicly known.

      The mean reason I say this is because India is extremely lawless and this lawlessness seems to be unaffected by the existing surveillance apparatus. Only the a negligible fraction of all violent crimes committed seem to get police response or public attention.