It is precisely the same in the United States, it is just somewhat deniable there due to things like the FISA court. It allows peoples' inherent belief in American virtue to doublethink themselves into believing that the NSA doesn't collect this high-res data in bulk from Facebook and Google and Amazon and Apple and the mobile carriers—when we have clear documents showing that they do. LOVEINT is real. The large soci…
No it isn't.
> when we have clear documents showing that they do.
We have claims and vague overview documents, but no actual direct evidence. For China, it's so rampant that direct evidence is everywhere.
> Your social media and financial data are already being aggregated and sold—we know this, too.
Financial data can only be sold in non-personally identifying anonymized forms. Now either you know this and you're willfully trolling, or you don't and you have no idea what you're talking about. I live in the UK so modulo Brexit, my social media data is protected by EU rules. At least the US does have some controls.
China has no controls whatsoever, the government blatantly ignores the law, completely owns the courts and exploits the data directly right now for censorship and persecution. It also sells it for the personal gain of officials. No innuendo, no supposition, no conspiracy theories required, they're doing it in plain sight on a massive scale.