Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.
Its not even close. For example, end-to-end encryption is standard in the west. In China its heavily restricted and basically non-existant.
Remember that you need an id to get a phone number in most countries. And how hot big IT is for your phone number. Aside from UKUSA and NSA programs doing way more.
The coping tactics are almost the same here, if you're not a privacy nut.
Not to say it's as bad as in China, especially here it's for money (though not for me) and against terrorism. But the definition of terrorism can quickly change with someone like trump in power.
Where I live, I consider nothing I do on my phone private at all, and I have to act accordingly. I would be in breach of Chinese law were I to do the same in China.