Posted on 08/11/2020 9:39:22 AM PDT by yoe
At the moment, ByteDance is in negotiations with Microsoft and Twitter to sell TikTok. Yet a sale will not by itself end the threat. Any new owner will have to go over line after line of code to insulate TikTok from Chinese interference.
Even an exhaustive review may not be sufficient, because Beijing will still know the general architecture of the software, thereby facilitating further manipulation of the app. As Dabrowa told Gatestone, "My team discovered that a foreign actor may come in the backdoor and change the feed."
In the meantime, Trump's 45-day period, plus the time needed to review software, give China plenty of opportunity to interfere in the upcoming American elections.
[snip] President Donald Trump on Thursday (issued an executive order that just might save America's democracy.)
There’s a herd of such horses going back to early socialists in education (re School of Darkness by Bella Dodd).
The user information TikTok collects on its users is no different than the information that Google, MSFT, Facebook, etc.. has on all their users. The main issue is, Americans (and Fed.gov) will generally accept US citizens become digital drones and their personal details becoming products for Silicon Valley, but China having this information is a bridge too far.
The new frontier of “National Security” is now the total control of people through data.
I am almost convinced that if China gained controlled of all of social media and threatened to shut it down unless we surrendered....good bye America.
Star Trek Next Gen “The Game”
“their personal details becoming products for Silicon Valley, but China having this information is a bridge too far.”
Quite a far cry from when China stole all of the SF86 data during Obama’s administration, and it barely made headlines for a couple days.
I am still trying to figure out the dangers of social media, since every time I have had my data stolen, it was under government care...
TikTok is like a giant vacume cleaner..it will suck up ‘everything’ you have on line, and everyone you know or correspond with.
I went to the website, had a look, read about it, and still can’t tell what it’s for, or why it exists. Useless crap, IMO.
Make sure you have good antivirus software using any apps like this.
I had downloaded one call FreeDownloadManager that more easily managed file downloads. But I put restrictions on what it was allowed to do.
My Avast software informed me that it was trying to access documents in my “MyDocuments” folder - it had absolutely no reason to upload anything from there.
I strongly recommend Avast- even if you only use the free version (I buy the full boat because I like to support good products)
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