Posted on 06/27/2021 9:58:04 AM PDT by rktman
Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, supplies the Chinese government with endless American user data since Chinese law requires its organizations to “support, assist, and cooperate with the state intelligence work.”
TikTok’s privacy policy allows the platform to share user data with ByteDance.
“We may share all of the information we collect with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group,” the policy reads.
The user data the platform collects is unlimited.
“They’ve collected ten of millions of pieces of data on Americans,” said Lewis. “This is big data. In the U.S. they use it for advertising ... in China, the state uses it for intelligence purposes,” Jim Lewis, senior vice president of the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a foreign affairs think tank, told CNBC.
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POTUS Trump warned America about the garbage site and the media lost their minds as usual.
MSM media and Social media are NOT our friends. Enjoy your bread and circuses until it’s time to pay the piper.
I noticed many stories at Yahoo website with links to this tiktok like they were being paid to do so by the communists.
Every single user agrees to this.
When the product is free, you’re the product.
Most people think China can’t do anything with what they have to post.
I don’t know about that.
“...like they were being paid to do so by the communists.”
Everyone is.
Because a lot of young folks belong to the selfie nation?
Yup!
RE: TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data
We already knew this as early as middle of last year, why isn’t the US government doing a thing abut this? What the heck is going on?
Anyone that gets my info will be in for a rude awakening. They’d most likely start a go fund me page. Just sayin’......😂🙌
Trump was right again.
Another reason they had to get rid of that crazy Trump who would have ended this.
Anyone that gets my info ...
It is easier for the Chinese to get my information than for me. There is little protection for the little guy.
And the Biden admin just reversed the Tik Tok ban.
Biden just reversed the ban.
And Biden reversed the policy.
It isn’t about what they “post” - it is about tracking behavior to create an intelligence profile on the social and economic habits of Americans (and everyone else).
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