Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.

AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or from your ISP. The Washington Post ran an article about that today, but links to them get blocked by some sort of filter on lemmy.world

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Was it the news community? Pretty much all of my posts get filtered there for some reason.

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All of them. I can post other sites just fine; it’s only washingtonpost.com and wapo.st links that are blocked.

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah, I see. Annoying.

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• Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But then they have to pay, it’s not all free to them. And data brokers sell large data, whereas with TikTok they could just say “Give me everything that exists about @AmbiguousPoops” and know your whole life because they agreed to it in the terms of service.

  “Device Information: We collect certain information about the device you use to access the Platform, such as your IP address, user agent, mobile carrier, time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purposes, model of your device, the device system, network type, device IDs, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices. Where you log-in from multiple devices, we will be able to use your profile information to identify your activity across devices. We may also associate you with information collected from devices other than those you use to log-in to the Platform.”

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is political, because Meta does the exact same thing you have quoted, and they aren’t getting banned.

    We need stronger data protection laws, period.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As we illustrated several times in this thread, an American Company collecting your data is a lower risk than an adversarial dictatorship’s military operation collecting your data for free (or even for profit as a cherry on top).

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      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It clearly isn’t lower risk considering the state of polarized politics in America and other western powers after the advent of Cambridge Analytica (which Facebook barely faced any consequences for btw).

        Tiktok is a boogeyman, and Meta, Twitter, Google, whatever other social FAANG-adjacent platform you use, wants you to focus on them so that they can keep milking you for your data, while simultaneously feeding you ads and radicalizing political content directly targeted to you.

        So I reiterate, we need better data protection and regulation laws for ALL social media.

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It quite literally is political. It’s not legal for them because China but Meta, X, Snap, etc can do the same thing and be fine?

    That is the definition of political.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Facebook spent years in court just to get hit with the largest fine in the history of fines, 5,000,000,000.00 USD. They also payed another 725,000,000.00 in lawsuits.

      All for selling to a British market research company that they had no idea was a Russian shell.

      Idk how much you think they made off the deal, but probably nowhere close to as much as they lost.

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• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll allow it.

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