Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned?

• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  By the way, there's also a Wikipedia article about TikTok with a whole paragraph about privacy and security concerns. Along with references. None of it is refuted. TikTok / ByteDance themselves tell who owns the platform. And they seem to be very clear themselves and that they log your interactions, location, mobile carrier, information about your phone, your biometric face features and so on and so on.

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  • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thanks. I’m getting the sense that, while ByteDance doesn’t collect any more information than Meta or Instagram, it’s info is suspected to be accessible by the CCP, which may be used for anti-US programs/policies, etc.

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    • neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is the most accurate conclusion so far. The US government considers it a national security threat. There are lots of things it’s “okay” for your own government to do but not a foreign government :)

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      • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Which makes perfect sense. I don’t think this would be a thing if ByteDance was a British or Canadian company either. The issue is it’s Chinese, and China is an enemy of the U.S. right now.

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