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> I don't think someone in China seeing my TikTok videos Leaving aside mechanisms and policies, this is not about seeing videos, this is about the invasive amo
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
> I don't think someone in China seeing my TikTok videos
Leaving aside mechanisms and policies, this is not about seeing videos, this is about the invasive amount of information TikTok collects from devices it runs on.
- vkou 6y agoI don't think someone in China getting my GPS history, or my browsing history, or my mother's phone number is a national security issue, either.
- cthalupa 6y agoYours? Probably not. But it isn't about you. We already know that social media can be, and is, used to track details by nation states on all sorts of things, from the movement of individuals of interest, as well as things such as estimating the population of military bases, discovering military operations, etc. A foreign government having access to all of that data for a huge portion of the population is 100% a national security risk.
- vkou 6y agoThen ban military people from using it, problem solved. This level of paranoia looks more like the Soviet Union[1] than it does like a free country. [1] Where you couldn't even buy a map, because heaven forbid, foreign spies might use them to compromise... National security. They might learn the distances between the army base, and the hospital, and then who knows what diabolical plot they may hatch?
- elliekelly 6y agoIf I’m not mistaken the US Military has already banned the use of TikTok.
- dariusj18 6y agoUsing a large enough network and bluetooth history someone could track the movements of someone they are interested in.