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Comment: WeChat allegations in new California suit aim to re-purpose privacy laws to fight government abuses

By Mike Swift ( January 22, 2021, 22:09 GMT | Comment) -- Cyber-utopians once dreamed of an Internet that would be more powerful than governments. But a group of cases involving Chinese Internet companies suggest that day won't be coming soon. While US privacy laws have typically been enforced against private companies collecting personal data for commercial use, new litigation in California filed by by a human-rights group focused on China is trying to flip privacy laws to a different purpose — to blunt government surveillance and censorship from outside the US.US privacy laws have typically been enforced against private companies collecting personal data for commercial use. But a human-rights group focused on China is trying to flip California’s privacy laws to a different purpose — to blunt government surveillance and censorship from outside the US....

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