"TikTok is stealing your data."

JackbyDev

Data privacy is so much more than "selling data to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea." What a weak rebuttal.

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So nothing short of a complete ban of all social media and advertising is Data Privacy to you, then?

JackbyDev

just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there's something fishy happening.

If by "fishy" you mean "the ban is going into effect so people are expressing frustration", sure.

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YOUR data doesn't matter. Information gained from mass analysis of data that is tied to govt workers and military personnel is a security concern and it is treated as such. Nobody cares about your particular data, on either side (well, maybe ad companies, but if you are a tiktoker, you are already fully compromised there).

On the up side for tiktok kids. The CCP will likely order trump to unblock it.

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In other words, they (the US government) can't influence who does or doesn't see certain content, so they need it to sell to an "american" owner so that they can make sure they only see pro us propaganda.

JackbyDev

Something like GDPR would be the sane, non-strawman take.

JackbyDev

It's not even a "loophole" it's literally irrelevant to what people generally think of as "data privacy." Something like GDPR is an example of data privacy.

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As far as I understand TikTok is used as the main example but it will apply to all similar Chinese platforms.

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Right so the arbitrary line of not data privacy and is data privacy lay just before GDPR.

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Meanwhile there's https://loops.video/ and you should share that like I'm doing with your friends that are hooked on tiktok.

Cuz, fuck, this banning our voice thing is getting old.

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If our data didn't matter, they wouldn't be harvesting it, never mind making obscene amounts of money with it.

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It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it

So … if the evidence hasn’t been gathered yet what makes you think it’s happening?

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When you said “pushing the … propaganda” I assumed you meant using algorithms to artificially amplify these messages.

But the whole article is just about Musk posting his opinions on X.

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I choose to believe a hostile foreign dictatorship means more harm than a hostile domestic for profit business.

WTF is the foreign dictatorship going to do to the average citizen?

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Those laws should cover every social media site though. Not just the foreign ones. If they're going to ban tik-tok they should ban the rest too. I'm not in favor of this but the double standard is fucking stupid.

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"Pig Butchering" and political radicalization towards violence, as well as the largest YoY increase in hacks, specifically from china, which have had large measurable impacts on US Industry.

And thats just ongoing problems, they've probably gotten enough peoples social security, bank acc no., fingerprint, facial ID, etc to do so much more if they decide to cash in on their schemes early.

Also, if they suddenly decide the USA is weak enough, such as after losing a third of annual defence spending capability via withdrawal from NATO, the Chinese now have intimate knowledge of our defences.

You are already paying the price and it could only get worse.

JackbyDev

My point is that you saw this image and immediately concluded that OP didn't know there was any sort of data privacy adjacent thing in the law, but in reality it could be that OP knew that but wanted strong protections.

When people think of data privacy they generally don't think of "selling data to adversarial nations." They usually think of "selling data to anyone" or "the right to request their data be deleted."

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If you don't recognize data privacy as data privacy thats just a skill issue.

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Most of those things are facilitated via US social media as well.

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This has already happened in douyin, Chinese version of tiktok.