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You're right, this is probably the main problem (rather than the ability to change the content on TikTok.) So you're implying that their future influence opera
by trunnell 4y ago
You're right, this is probably the main problem (rather than the ability to change the content on TikTok.)
So you're implying that their future influence operations could be enhanced and better targeted by using profile-level viewing history on TikTok, similar to how Cambridge Analytica used FB profile data to target political advertising?
- bern4444 4y agoExactly, TikTok is for information gathering and profiling so the government can know what swaths of the population to target more effectively for whatever goal they have. What's valuable is all the information they can gather: contacts, age group, political affiliations, interest, geographic location, race, gender, interests. Everything that happens in TikTok is monitored and tracked even the in app web viewer that shows when you click a link. All activity in that is tracked (the page, duration, links you visit etc). These problems of security/privacy obviously exist for other foreign and domestic companies, TikTok is one of the most egregious and more threatening because the US has no recourse against it. At least if it were a US company, they could become subject to US laws requiring better data management, anonymization, require deletions on request etc. Being a foreign owned and operated entity means it is subject to no existing US laws and will never be subject to future US laws.