But at the very least, why wouldn’t the Chinese government do what they think can get away with?
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pirat@lemmy.world 4 days ago[…] TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.
It wouldn’t surprise me, but can you point me to a trustworthy source confirming that claim? Does the TikTok app refuse to work without those permissions granted (Location, Contacts, SMS, Photos and videos)?
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 4 days ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Same reason they could be respecting human rights but choose not to.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Years ago it was reported on by Internet 2.0 which was shared by news organizations such as Huffington Post. Additionally there was this guy on Reddit 5 years ago who decompiled the app and shared all the results on a subreddit made specifically for it LINK HERE and he claims that the app is literally more malware-like data collection than actual video playing app, like the amount of install data is mostly just the data collection tools.
If TikTok didn’t want these stories swept under the rug and if there wasn’t truth to these stories they could have sued these people for defamation. But they didn’t, implying they would have lost the case handily and looked bad for it.