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US TikTok Data Repeated Accessed by China
- ineedasername 4y agoI for one am shocked by this. I am however certain it must have been both an honest oversight and quickly remedied from this point forward.
- notadev 4y agoI’m like 60% sarcasm and 40% shill
- ineedasername 4y agoSarcasm, not shilling for TikTok. Social media in general doesn't have the best track record on misusing user data so I would not think TikTok any better despite its protestations to the contrary. I'll grant that access by the Chinese government is not necessarily a given, but we do know that Chinese companies are very much obliged to accede to any commands by their government. Should the PRC have a desire for it, and should they consider themselves to have even a thin veneer of deniability, I am confident they'd make use of it.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoMy new “oddly satisfying” fixation is taking an ad infested web page like this and switching to reader mode in Safari. I feel like a Roman reading todays paper
- kderbyma 4y agoI thought that it was known that this happens. Are we now acknowledging post 2020 again ...
- ineedasername 4y agoIIRC during the Trump Presidency it was primarily President Trump himself that made this accusation and it was not clear his source of information-- whether he had specific information about it or was making the claim out of suspicion or a simple matter of political posturing as part of his more adversarial approach to Chinese relationships. The linked story on the other hand details more specific & supported details stemming from more than a year after Trump's presidency & TikTok's assurances that it was not doing exactly this. In short, what were mostly unsupported claims during <= 2020 have now been significantly substantiated.
- smokey_circles 4y agoThe US is only angry that they don't have the right to do this. Ya know, like with all the other tech firms they squeeze
- djohnston 4y agoThis is a report by Buzzfeed, not the US govt. Did you read the article?