Comment by derektank

Comment by derektank 2 days ago

I don't know what Congress has said but there absolutely is evidence that TikTok has been used to spy on users for political reasons. A US based engineer claims that he saw evidence that Hong Kong protestors were spied on in 2018 at the behest of a special committee representing the CCP's interests within ByteDance. This is not surprising, most major corporations within China maintain a special committee representing the government's interests to company executives

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/7/china-spied-on-ho...

ok123456 2 days ago

The DHS does that in the United States.

Every major social media and dating application has a law enforcement portal. This was documented in BlueLeaks.

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derektank 2 days ago

Do law enforcement portals provide current location information? There's an extended history of the TikTok being used to spy on the location of user devices
https://archive.ph/kt0fY

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- ok123456 2 days ago
  
  Yes, in some cases. Grindr is the most obvious one.
  
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  derektank 2 days ago
  
  Okay, that's because Grindr users choose to publicly share their current location; that's the point of the app. Governments having an API that lets them access data that users publicly share seems substantively different from governments having access to private information, obtaining that information by subverting internal controls at TikTok and ByteDance intended to keep it private. I think anyone not arguing for arguments sake would acknowledge that
  
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  ok123456 2 days ago
  
  Most apps coerce their users into sharing location information. That's why they released apps and did not just use progressive web apps in the first place.
  But, this is done under the guise of commercial interests, usually advertising, so it's okay?
  
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