Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months agoAccording to former head engineer for US locations of TikTok, their services are centralized in China to the extent that it probably cannot even run off the US locations alone, and the Chinese owners ByteDance had complete access to everything on the platform including user data and if you believe security experts: your photo library, text message history, contacts list, and information of nearby wireless devices that you’ve so much as passed by. Also, they’re a military partner in China.
That’s not a US Corporation in any way, shape, or form. That is espionage. The fact that they announced they won’t sell shows that they were never a business operating for profit, it was always about control.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sure you can link these security experts. Since that would be classed as malware and the industry standard is to write public reports on that stuff.
And saying they aren’t like a US corporation because they do some military contracting is fucking hilarious.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
We were talking about what TikTok has to do with China, as you seemed to not know how, so you finding their direct obvious ties to China “fucking hilarious” is telling of your intentions.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No that’s ByteDance’s direct ties. TikTok would be indirect. My intention is to get to the bottom of this but it’s constantly just unsourced accusations and conflations. Not to mention excuse after excuse for why we can’t just pass an American GDPR. Instead we have to instigate Red Scare 2.0 which is totally not sus.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
ByteDance is not just an indirect tie between TickTock and China, former employees have testified that the TikTok services are centralized in China. The offices in the USA operate like a shell company.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Would it be classified as malware? I think people hand over permissions on their smartphone for most or all of those things on a daily basis without a second thought.
The report on the vast extent of data obtained by TikTok was published by an Australian firm called “Internet 2.0” but it’s pay to view. Seems pretty substantial, though, since it hasn’t been debunked in the 2 years since it was published.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lmao. They’re trying to sell a product. They admit on their blog that the reason their score is so high is the trackers. Which are all from other social media companies and an advertiser. Oh and they counted Google Crashlytics.
TIL I learned good app maintenance is considered a red flag.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
If they cared about money they wouldn’t be threatening to shut down rather than sell.