So Americans having access to American’s Data is bad but you think China having access to American’s Data is good?
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DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months agoAccess to the data it’s what matters, ownership is just one method of access.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months ago
No, they’re both bad.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Alright, thank you for clarifying that you want more restrictions and laws against these companies, it just seemed odd for you to bring up those other businesses in a post talking about the TikTok forced sale and resulting lawsuit.
I’m just happy about them restricting US Citizen data being brokered to adversarial nations including Iran, Russia, China, and others.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months ago
I want the issue of mass surveillance / data collection to be addressed, instead of this bs which is basically working around the edges the problem. Tick-tock shouldn’t be allowed to sell (/provide) user data to anyone but neither should Meta, X, reddit, etc.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If this were true, it wouldn’t matter that the US set up the social security number system, because Experian leaked millions of Americans’ SSNs.
It obviously matters who owns a service that millions of citizens use from a country that is a political rival. You’re just hoping to shut down any conversation against TikTok with a whataboutism
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months ago
We’re talking about individuals’ personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.
The problem is that the data is accessable, but that’s not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 6 months ago
It’s a bad analogy. Mass surveillance (continuous collection of everyone’s data) has very little to do with the number we use to track social security payments.
tborders@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
When signing up for a tik-tok account, I put in a birth date, a username, an email address for verifcation and that was it. I didn’t need to provide a drivers license, verify that the name I put in was my actual name, that the birth date was my actual birth date. Location isn’t allowed nor was it requested and neither was Nearby devices. It’s actually been a much better behaved application than any American social media app.