interesting article on privacy and surveillance in china - "While Chinese citizens will soon have broad protections from commercial data collection, they’ll likely continue to experience growing, perhaps total government surveillance" https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/china-consumer-data-protection-privacy-surveillance.html …
Autocratic governments dislike competition in any department, so if they care a lot about surveillance, it makes sense that they don't want private companies doing it too.
