As an American, I would be appalled if my data were provided to the Chinese government for anything less than Meta charges to provide that info. It’s just unfair to TikTok and I believe in a free market in commoditizing the lives of human beings.
Meta actually doesn’t sell your data (this is complicated and not as good as it sounds: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2021/09/02/what-does-it-actually-mean-when-a-company-says-we-do-not-sell-your-data)
Ok, fine. I concede the point. Replace Meta with 50 data brokers that sell “anonymized” location data on everyone who ever downloaded a free app.
Is this where we post the shocked Pikachu face? Or do they only accept Pooh bear memes?
Nice
If only anyone could have known
No one could have predicted this. (Satire)
I see Chinese in on tiktok semi regularly at least it seems.
Did the ceo lie to usa congress under oath?
Limitless Peace
Absolutely the CEO lied, but unfortunately our government lacks the teeth to put him in jail.
I wonder how this plays out if he lied under oath tbh.
No one is fighting for tiktok thinking it didn't share info with China. The problem is China can just buy our data from a number of data brokers. Every social media, shopping, and US website collects your info to be sold. That's the problem. The singled out tiktok bc China was collecting it free and people are learning how corrupt our US government is.
Sooo... no different than Google working with the US government, then.
Clearly false - Google is banned in China.
Oh my god who cares
All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy it
Including the Chinese govt
This anti-Tik Tok campaign is just jingoistic noise and makes the US no better than the CPC who censored Facebook and Twitter years ago
Oh my god who cares
All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy of
Conformity is a slave mindset. Just because its done and legal does not mean its right.
Nationalist fearmongering does not make you free either, fellow slave
That's why I'm not a nationalist. Nice try tho.
No shit
Doyee
NSA just mad they don't get to plug their dedicated spyware directly into it.
That's why they want it to become US owned.
Anyway, let's say this is true. What can China do with this data?
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