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Related: About this forumI am bewildered by the TikTok hoopla. It is clear the Congresspersons know absolutely nothing that t
I am bewildered by the TikTok hoopla. It is clear the Congresspersons know absolutely nothing that they are talking about.
https://egbertowillies.com/2023/03/25/the-tiktok-grand-distraction-a-ban-is-silly-irresponsible-and-anti-democratic/
Fiendish Thingy
(15,601 posts)Tik Tok is sophisticated spyware that can circumvent a smartphones security (usually with the unwitting consent of the user, who quickly taps agree to the software agreement) gather data, send it back to the developer, who can then share it with whomever, including other governments (Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company).
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists
TikTok has admitted that it used its own app to spy on reporters as part of an attempt to track down the journalists sources, according to an internal email.
The data was accessed by employees of ByteDance, TikToks Chinese parent company and was used to track the reporters physical movements. The companys chief internal auditor Chris Lepitak, who led the team involved in the operation, has been fired, while his China-based manager Song Ye has resigned.
They looked at IP addresses of journalists who were using the TikTok app in an attempt to learn if they were in the same location as employees suspected of leaking confidential information. The effort, which targeted former BuzzFeed reporter Emily Baker-White and Financial Times reporter Cristina Criddle among other reporters, was unsuccessful, but resulted in at least four members of staff based in both the US and China improperly accessing the data, according to an email from ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen. All four have been fired. Company officials said they were taking additional steps to protect user data.
Thats why governments around the world are banning the app from government devices.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-tik-tok-china-1.6720793
Sami Khoury, head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, said users need to be aware of what they're agreeing to when they download an app, and should ask whether it enables access to their personal data.
"You have to ask yourself the question, do they need to access that information? Why does an application need to access all of my contact list? Why does it need to access my calendar, my email, my phone records, my [texts]?" he told CBC News.
Meanwhile some users think they are simply making cool videos that could vault them to influencer status, while many other users use the app to simply watch videos, blissfully unaware of the risks to their private information.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,601 posts)Not to the extent that Tik Tok apparently can- see update to my original post.
Social media certainly gathers a tremendous amount of information, but generally only information that you input to the app by liking, retweeting, etc.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)David__77
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MichMan
(11,915 posts)ancianita
(36,053 posts)Youth might pay attention to politics, but these generations might rue the day they added to China's General AI development.
Once a superpower wins the General AI race, the world won't even know it's being implemented.