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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by zkid18 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:29PM (#23693168)
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]

[0] https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875

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Re:TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being ... by jimsmart on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:57AM (#23702901)
>> 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...

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