As someone who lived in China, I doubt it.<p>Individual rights and limitations on government power are not taught in Chinese schools nor ingrained in Chinese culture. Politics is not natural part of the Chinese conversational diet in much the same way that bread is not a natural part of their nutritional diet. To the extent that such topics come up it is pragmatic to a fault. It is always in the context of fixing a specific problem in the here and now (Eg there is corruption therefore lets purge the corrupt) and never in the context of a broader political philosophy (Eg how should we structure the civil service to dis-incentivize corruption). Chinese ideas on what ought be legal are rooted in intuition for what we would call natural law rather than study of what we would call natural law.<p>I can't imagine Chinese people being concerned about the general case of lax data protection. I can picture a near infinite string of ad hoc outcry over things like the strawberry adverts.<p>Anyone from China disagreeing with my observations on your country, feel free to yell at me. I invite you.
Boy did Apple skate to where the puck was headed or what? I remember reading all those hot takes years ago insisting it was a mistake and thinking how short sighted that was [1][2]. It was also weird because even before the Apple Watch was announced there was plenty of evidence of their health ambitions, so it obviously made sense to be strong on privacy and security. Since then multiple high profile hacks have happened (and are bound to keep happening), the FBI fought Apple and lost (at least in lower courts), GDPR is being implemented in the EU, and antitrust regulators are taking a look at internet business models [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience" rel="nofollow">https://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience</a><p>[2] <a href="https://stratechery.com/2015/tim-cooks-unfair-and-unrealistic-privacy-speech-strategy-credits-the-privacy-priority-problem/" rel="nofollow">https://stratechery.com/2015/tim-cooks-unfair-and-unrealisti...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9376eece-00e4-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/9376eece-00e4-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c...</a>
Man, it's a strange article. Fraud of every kind is endemic in China. When I'm in China, it's reasonable to assume anyone who initiates conversation with me has some kind of scam in mind. Strangers are very wary of each other. It's common to receive scam texts from people saying they're your dad or your landlord and to send money to such and such a bank account. I think most Chinese people have never had the opportunity to use any computer other than perhaps an iPhone that has not been backdoored/rootkit'd/RAT'd in at least one way. What would data protection by Chinese companies even mean? They're already comprehensively cooperating with the CCP.