Aronson identifies three types of data: personal data, public data (government-controlled/collected), and proprietary data (trade secrets/algorithms), arguing that Chinese and Western strategies conflate these types and making coherent policy requires distinguishing them.

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Susan Aronson

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there are three main types of data personal public there's also oafman data which can be a mix but public is data paid for or controlled by governance or research collected by governance and then proprietary data right intellectual cropping Trade Secrets algorithms are an example of that

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China's Grand Strategy For Global Data Dominance | Hoover InstitutionHoover Institution
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:18:09 PM

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