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> I just can't see the Chinese internet giants letting an American company dominate this space

Letting an American company know who in your country is travelling where and meeting with whom for how long would be a risky national-security move even without the FBI and pals advertising their bulldog mentality.

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Heck, it's a national security issue for Uber to have info about what American politicians went where and when:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8682132

I would relish that data being dumped by someone.

Uber runs on cellphone GPS alone. The gov't has full access to cell phone location records for everyone who touches their cell network, with unique serial numbers. They don't need uber or anyone else for a subset of their location records.

The argument isn't that the government needs Uber to be able to track their citizens, but that Uber being a major player allows the American government to track Chinese citizens.

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