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If you thought Cambridge Analytica was bad, wait 'til you find out what a China-based company can do with detailed preference and arousal data from young people
by petesergeant 4y ago
If you thought Cambridge Analytica was bad, wait 'til you find out what a China-based company can do with detailed preference and arousal data from young people.
- irq 4y agoThis is what keeps me off Tiktok. I feel like I’m losing my mind even having to make a judgement like this, but I trust Facebook more than China. Only a tiny bit, but it’s there.
- petesergeant 4y agoThat’s because Facebook’s motives are absolutely sublime in their purity: they want you to use their product and they want you to click on those ads. The motives of a company controlled by the CCP are much much murkier.
- hackflip 4y agoThe Devil you know
- matsemann 4y agoWell, as a non-US person I like that not all my PII is concentrated in US companies. If anything, I feel that US having something on me can have worse effects on me, compared to China, given the amount of US/western stuff I use.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI honestly don’t care if the Chinese government knows everything about me. Much more worried about the American government.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoAny entity that knows so much about you can manipulate you in ways you won’t suspect. Their government isn’t held back by the Constitution and they probably wouldn’t hesitate to influence the citizenry of their main rival on the world stage.
- 8note 4y ago... the US government isn't particularly limited in such a way either. They have nice have for everything foreign communications, and all the actions are held as confidential
- sudosysgen 4y agoThe US government isn't really held back by the Constitution either. It's been diluted so much they can just use Canada as a proxy and return the favour, for example, no problem. I agree with your overall point but it's not really a legal matter, it's just power.
- lrhegeba 4y agoFor non-US citizens the US constitution also has no relevance. Thus for non-US citizens it makes no real difference
- petesergeant 4y agoSure, I also don’t care what the Chinese government knows about me. I care a lot about their ability to influence US elections though.
- thrown_22 4y agoI'm much more worried about the ability of Google to influence US elections than China.
- drawfloat 4y agoProbably as much as a US based company can. I didn't see any US social media giants getting any real punishment for what they got up to between 2007-17. In fact, given the general distrust of China in the West in international politics, feels like national governments are more likely to respond to any emerging harms than they did with Facebook.
- rospaya 4y agoTik Tok seems to be worse than Facebook in that regard https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more-than-any-other-social-media-app-study.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more...
- bsder 4y agoAt least the FBI can't get hold of it ...
- eunos 4y agoYawn.. Get better material