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I think there’s a bit of hysteria here. Tiktok have completely separated their Chinese business and international one, with international server hosted outside
by Aperocky 7y ago
I think there’s a bit of hysteria here. Tiktok have completely separated their Chinese business and international one, with international server hosted outside China. Saying that data collection is funneled to CCP is like accusing any US company of _potential_ acquisition of foreign data by the US government. Or to rephrase, no Chinese business should have the ability to operate elsewhere because they are from China? I think it’s overboard and even somewhat hypocritical.
- whatshisface 7y agoWe know for a fact that US business funnel data to the US government, often unwillingly, thanks to Snowden.
- hackernewsboy 7y agoit is actually very doubtful even tiktok has a separate section for internationals. for example, do you trust huawei's international operations?
- Aperocky 7y agoYou can ping the endpoints and see where the servers are, in addition to difference in naming, app, API, domain, etc. I don't need to trust anyone to verify the things that I can verify myself.
- hackernewsboy 7y agoNowadays it is very easy to have a front server with behind-scene server farms. You as a common end user without special tools just cannot see through, unless you are a genius script kid.