What's an american three-letter agency going to do in such a situation? Write an angry letter to the CCP? I'm a proud patriot, but if given the choice between protecting a large company's IP and my mother's life, I'm choosing the latter without a moment's hesitation.
I’m fairly certain Politico is widely considered to have an agenda of some sort. See one of their strange publishing decisions from wikipedia: ‘ In March 2019 Politico was again accused of anti-semitism when it published an article depicting imagery of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders next to money trees. Sanders, one of two Jewish candidates for the 2020 US presidential election, was targeted for the amount of wealth he accumulated over his lifetime.[63] Politico staff writer Michael Kruse wrote the article detailing the senator's wealth, writing that Sanders "might still be cheap", according to one of the senator's friends, "but he's sure not poor", which was criticised as combining two anti-Semitic tropes (Jews are cheap; Jews are rich). Politico's official Twitter account used the quote to share the story; the tweet was later deleted.[64]’
At least with an institution that acknowledges its agenda you can reasonably take their biases into account. For most agendas, it is still in an institution's best interest to be generally accurate. You just need to know when to take things with a grain of salt. Unfortunately with no known agenda, there's no way to know when that is.
Databases have access control mechanisms that scale to an organization, but web scale demands access control for the world which means that every developer working with a DB must invent their own access control to the data on behalf of their users. This basically means the database is open to all developers in a company.
Given the emerging regulatory environment, I suspect there is room to launch new database technology such that access control is an atomic feature built in.
I've experimented with this using my programming language for board games, and it is surprisingly amazing. I can model data schema and privacy at the same time, and I love it. http://www.adama-lang.org/
