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US TikTok Data Repeated Accessed by China

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I thought that it was known that this happens. Are we now acknowledging post 2020 again ...

IIRC during the Trump Presidency it was primarily President Trump himself that made this accusation and it was not clear his source of information-- whether he had specific information about it or was making the claim out of suspicion or a simple matter of political posturing as part of his more adversarial approach to Chinese relationships.

The linked story on the other hand details more specific & supported details stemming from more than a year after Trump's presidency & TikTok's assurances that it was not doing exactly this.

In short, what were mostly unsupported claims during <= 2020 have now been significantly substantiated.

My new “oddly satisfying” fixation is taking an ad infested web page like this and switching to reader mode in Safari.

I feel like a Roman reading todays paper

I for one am shocked by this. I am however certain it must have been both an honest oversight and quickly remedied from this point forward.

I’m like 60% sarcasm and 40% shill

Sarcasm, not shilling for TikTok.

Social media in general doesn't have the best track record on misusing user data so I would not think TikTok any better despite its protestations to the contrary. I'll grant that access by the Chinese government is not necessarily a given, but we do know that Chinese companies are very much obliged to accede to any commands by their government. Should the PRC have a desire for it, and should they consider themselves to have even a thin veneer of deniability, I am confident they'd make use of it.

The US is only angry that they don't have the right to do this.

Ya know, like with all the other tech firms they squeeze

This is a report by Buzzfeed, not the US govt. Did you read the article?

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