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Sounds like another Chinese government intelligence gathering exercise. Why this app isn't banned in the west?

• xvector 6y ago
  Choose your poison, US intelligence or Chinese? Either way it is irrelevant. People put on TikTok what they want the world to see. The importance of the app for any sort of intelligence is vastly overrated - Facebook would be far more useful as people expect relative privacy amongst their friend group.
  • varispeed 6y ago
    Are you seriously comparing the US to openly racist China (social score, Hukou, concentration camps, cultural cleansing)?
    • xvector 6y ago
      What difference does it make as to which country has a quirky public dance video of mine? Again, the potential benefit of TikTok as an intelligence platform is overrated. Bypass cert pinning and inspect the packets sent by the application if you’re so paranoid - most reversing and packet capture efforts haven’t found anything of note.
      • varispeed 6y ago
        They can use your videos to better train AI at recognising foreigners for starters.
        • xvector 6y ago
          There are billions of hours of video on the internet already that could assist with that task. Sounds like a stretch of a reason to me.
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          • varispeed 6y ago
            Why should they waste time on scraping, compiling metadata, following subjects if the app provides all of that?
            • xvector 6y ago
              Again, what you are concerned about is almost certainly already complete. Facial recognition systems aren’t so primitive anymore.
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