This app should have been banned from both appstores when it was found to be exfiltrating all clipboard data. Insane that it's still permitted by Apple and Google after such an obvious display of malevolence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/17/google_reportedly...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204880404577225...
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/privacy-lawsuits-ac...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2022/09/22/face...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-lawsuit-ios-privacy/
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/facebook-user...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...
Is there anything unreasonable about treating China the same way it treats others?
Privacy concerns obviously become much more critical when an aggressive foreign power is involved and is likely to weaponise the data. Particularly a country like China that operates the most sophisticated control/surveillance systems in the world on its own citizens.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-275-billion-c...
I suppose it’s the threat of TikTok paving the way for non App Store deployments. Reducing power of the app stores.
Or maybe it’s US companies believing they can use permission systems to tame the information flow to TikTok servers.
Perhaps the fact that every other major social company has been found of doing the same (Facebook and Google multiple times) and yet nothing happened to their apps, at best they got a "slap on the wrist" at times...
The focus on Tik-Tok is more about a shot in the US-China trade and geopolitical rivarly than because it's somehow unique