But Google and Facebook aren’t a problem. I see.
The Chinese government is spying on us through Tik Tok. But, if Microsoft buys Tik Tok, then it will be an American company spying on us through Tik Tok and then passing the information to the Chinese government. That would be so much better.
The big Tech companies seem to be a problem.
Basically, the server (and the vast amount of data) would be sitting in the US....if this deal were completed.
Now, within days after that, the EU would demand that a server be set up in each European country and none of the data exit the country unless the person signs off on data-sharing.
Hasn’t Microsoft regularly bought out software companies that do things better than they can?
In this case, spying?
They’ll tie it in with TOIP and ImmuniPass for social scoring us.
China will censor you if you are talking about China. Silicon Valley will censor you for anything against a whole laundry list of issues.
We have a case where a Silicon Valley rival gets taken over by Silicon Valley. In broad daylight.
Can’t = won’t
TikTok is Chinese spyware thinly disguised as a social media app. It snoops on your clipboard and your contacts and it can download and run arbitrary code payloads without your permission.
It uses the OLLVM obfuscation engine to hide its code, which is used by malware to try to hide their activity from forensic analysis. An Android security expert managed to defeat OLLVM to reveal some its naughty behavior.
https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/
TikTok is in blatant violation of the TOS for the Google Play Store and the Apple Store for uploaded apps. If a random hacker tried to upload something like TikTok it would get quickly banned, assuming it even was able to pass Google and Apple’s automatic security tests in the first place.
Why do Google and Apple allow such a badly behaved app that so egregiously violates their own TOS rules to the point where the President himself has to threaten to ban it?
I don’t like the government getting a part of the deal. Very bad precedent.
But as to banning the program to eliminate the spying... count me in.
Turning over TikTok to Microsoft to address privacy concerns is like hiring former Enron accountants to do your taxes because of audit concerns. To be fair, you could say the same thing about Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram... These are all large entities with significant capabilities - and your information, or more precisely “our” information collectively has value to them for marketing purposes. Of course they’re going to collect whatever they can, whenever they can.
Just put an end to this useless (and dangerous) app. If Microsoft wanted to, they could build their own. Stop playing games with China!
“Second, it is alleged that they are sharing your personal data with the Communist Chinese Party (”CCP”). The CCP is not a government of respect, benevolence or fairness. They take what they want with no consequence.”
Sounds exactly like our government, now.
Bill Gates. Satan’s scourge on earth. Him and the social media scum, all are from Satan’s pen of garbage, filth, scum, wickedness and hate. These liars all claim to speak and allow the world to speak, however, they are of satan and they are all for shutting down everyone that does not agree with their lies, socialist, communism, and liberalism.
I am glad you posted this.
I was wondering if I was the only person who remembered stories like this one:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2681548/china-gets-access-to-microsoft-source-code.html
Third, is the problem of misinformation. TikTok has been accused of targeting and removing content that does not align with Chinese policies. Essentially, they have the ability to create, delete or alter content to influence and persuade.
Just like Facebook, Twitter, Google etc!
Difference between democrats and the CCP?
Not much. The democrat party has not killed as many people yet.