Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ...
by zkid18 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:29PM
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Yeah the bar is high. But unfortunately people seek for short-term rewards and rarely care about their data leakage.
How did the #DeleteFacebook movement impact the companies business? Not that much I believe. The stocks keep rising. Would be interesting to see what will happen to Bytedance product?
> 3) There's a deep seated fear, and evidence, that Chinese companies share their data with their government.
Can you share the evidence of that please? Apparently Bytedance cut Domestic Engineers' Data Access to TikTok [0]
Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ...
by jimsmart on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:57AM
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>> 3) There's a deep seated fear, and evidence, that Chinese companies share their data with their government.
> Can you share the evidence of that please?
Not the parent commenter, but you may find this paper informative/insightful:
"Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data in China" (2017) [0]
Not by any means the only source, just happens to be one I read recently.
[0] https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/978019068...
1) TikTok is one of the most popular apps and was the second most downloaded last year [0]. Come on, they are at the top. That's why we talk about them.
2) TikTok has been caught in a lot of privacy scandals that appear to be more egregious than other apps.
3) There's a deep seated fear, and evidence, that Chinese companies share their data with their government.
It is all three, but mostly #1.
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These are the same event, why are you posting two instances of the same event like "TikTok is unfairly being targeted?"
> There a bunch of apps like VICE, Google News, WSJ that has been caught doing exactly the same. [2]
People are upset about that too. But frankly, VICE and the WSJ don't have as many downloads as TikTok. Even if you combine their total downloads they don't account for a tenth (<1/10th!!!!) of TikTok's downloads. Frankly I don't understand the logic here. Ignore the top dog just because others are doing the same thing? Just because others do it doesn't make it right and of course we should go after the one that's the biggest.
If you're bigger, people pay more attention to you. That's why TikTok is getting "singled out." BECAUSE TIKTOK IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR APPS IN THE WORLD! It doesn't matter what other apps do. That doesn't justify bad behavior. Am I the only one whose mom said "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?"
[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-most-downloaded-apps...