Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months agoI’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.
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.
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.
If they cared about money they wouldn’t be threatening to shut down rather than sell.
Internet 2.0 is threatening to shut down?
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.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No they haven’t. They said they sent head count and engagement data. That’s it.