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by t_minus_3 2038 days ago
movers-n-packers/goods shipping company is a front end to a sophisticated intelligence gathering &e spionage program of china. Just like how HUAWEI is threat to US. Nobody is dying by banning bunch of games, chill !!
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I last used Lalamove to ship some furniture home from IKEA. I'm not entirely sure what the CCP wants to do with this information, but they're welcome to have it.
One, i for one would not welcome having an ethno-centric authoritarian state spying on me. I certainly wouldn't be happy if say the Nazis Germany or the stasi were spying in india. Your response is very similar to "I've got nothing to hide" argument for government spying.

Second, just because lalamove didn't do anything ontoward for you, doesn't mean that chinese companies don't spy on anyone. Maybe you should look at the rich history of china's industrial espionage, or how US and Soviet Russia spied on each other during the cold war.

Third, this is part of a economic and trade war against china. Maybe you should read about how an authoritarian state works, and how subjugated people get treated by oppressors. Go look at tibet, taiwan, Hong Kong, uyghur, ww2 poland etc etc.

I'll add a final point. I have found most such arguments made by people who hate the current indian government, which is indeed a bad one. But people are so hell bent on opposing the government that they even speak positives of entities that are against india, like china. Food for thought for you, what would your reaction be if it was the indian government doing similar things of industrial espionage, economic war, and spying. Would you say that modi was welcome to see that you ordered furniture from ikea?

But modiji already knows that thanks to RBI and your payment gateway which are bound by law to share the information. So do many more trackers, thanks to agreeing to the ToS, who will sell that data to the highest bidder and then again and again. :)
For a start, your home address, Cc info. Your inside layout of the house - how amenable you are to communist propaganda by looking at the indoors of the house. On the other hand, If you are govt official or person working in defense or research - they could easily bug your house while you are there and get daily briefings. I am not saying lalamove does this - but it is a possibility, think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei. Every country has a right to secure its border. To be fair, china is not exactly a warm neighbor too . China attacked india in 1962 and recently occupied leh and ladakh region. Tibet has been occupied by china. Taiwan, Hongkong have serious concerns with china's influence. On the other hand, you will find tons of companies like lalamove in india .
> think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei

The UK is not hell-bent on banning Huawei. It had initially approved Huawei hardware, and after banning them, admitted that this was due to geopolitical pressure,[1] which included US threats to reduce intelligence co-operation with the UK.[2] The US president even said that he was responsible for the UK's action.[3]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/18/pressure-...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/trump-to-threaten-to-curb-in...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2020/jul/15/tru...

I commend your creative thinking, but the flatpacks were left in the garage and the driver never stepped foot inside.
> think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei.

Because the US has a trade war with China and tries to rope other countries into it?