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>China passed a law a couple of years ago requiring all Chinese companies to give the government live access to their databases. Yeah, just like US. TikTok is
by trasz 4y ago
>China passed a law a couple of years ago requiring all Chinese companies to give the government live access to their databases.
Yeah, just like US. TikTok isn't any different from, say, YouTube in this regard.
- ThisIsMyAltFace 4y agoThis is just 100% untrue
- thrown_22 4y agoYes, what happens is that the US asks Australia, part of 5 eyes, to use their back doors, which need to be install by law there https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryption-law-is-a-threat-to-global-privacy/ https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio..., for any user data US agencies want. Completely different to China just having access to that data.
- trasz 4y agoI like how this is getting downvoted despite being provably correct.
- thrown_22 4y agoI like to say that the difference between Republicans and Democrats in the US is that Republicans break the law and Democrats subvert it. It's no wonder that the largely liberal audience of HN supports the subversion route the US takes compared to the more brutal but vastly more honest way the Chinese do it.