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> Facebook is accountable to the US govt in ways that TikTok Why wouldn't it be? TikTok is now a US company with the data of US citizens stored in Austin TX.
by Spivak 3y ago
> Facebook is accountable to the US govt in ways that TikTok
Why wouldn't it be? TikTok is now a US company with the data of US citizens stored in Austin TX.
https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about
https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-myths-vs-facts https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-myths-vs-facts
This is actually insane, the level of paranoia surrounding ByteDance has forced TikTok to jump through a billion hoops that no other foreign company has to and weirder still they did. Like my HIPAA is less protected than this.
> Myth: Under its 2017 National Intelligence law, the Chinese government can compel ByteDance to share American TikTok user data.
> Fact: TikTok Inc., which offers the TikTok app in the United States, is incorporated in California and Delaware, and is subject to U.S. laws and regulations governing privacy and data security. Under Project Texas, all protected U.S. data will be stored exclusively in the U.S. and under the control of the U.S.-led security team. This eliminates the concern that some have shared that TikTok US user data could be subject to Chinese law.
- intrasight 3y ago> TikTok is now a US company Not sure if I would agree. A friend works there and he's the only English speaking and Caucasian.
- osti 3y agoBy this logic, Amazon would be an Indian company, Google and Meta also have many teams composed of mainly Chinese so they would be Chinese companies as well.
- Mountain_Skies 3y ago@intrasight, my first job out of college in 2000 was for a small dot com owned entirely by a Jewish family in Texas. I was the only non Mandarin speaking software developer in the company. It's not all that uncommon in the tech industry regardless of ownership.
- intrasight 3y agoI think it is unusual - even for a small company. TitTok is not a small company.