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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by russli1993 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:12PM (#23839247)
Tiktok' parent is bytedance is incorporated in Cayman islands. It has a US and a Chinese subsidiary. Chinese subsidiary runs douyin is subjected to the intelligence law. The US subsidiary runs tiktok and is managed by US employees and is not subject to the same law. The intelligence law would be problematic if bytedance is incorporated in China but it's not. The data and the code for tiktok is stored in the US and Chinese subsidiary cannot view that data.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by gruez on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:29PM (#23839386)
>The intelligence law would be problematic if bytedance is incorporated in China but it's not. The data and the code for tiktok is stored in the US and Chinese subsidiary cannot view that data.

But the issue is that bytedance is still physically located in China, and is probably subject to CCP pressure. eg. "it'd be a real shame if your beijing offices were shut down because of fire code violations". Or they go straight to the CEO and demand that they backdoor their US servers or he gets sent to the gulag. According to wikipedia, the CEO of TikTok reports directly to the CEO of Zhang Yiming, so there isn't really separation in terms of control.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by parthdesai on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:28PM (#23840538)
From TikTok's privacy policy (via stratechery article)

> We may share your information with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group.

So I really don't see what your point is here.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by fiblye on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:40PM (#23839456)
>The US subsidiary runs tiktok and is managed by US employees and is not subject to the same law.

Which leaves us with the question as to whether or not the government cares what the law says or whether they would back down if employees in China said they can't easily hand over foreign data.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by justicezyx on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:00PM (#23839632)
Eventually tiktok will run anything that is remotely sensitive inside us soil. That has already began.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by humaniania on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:26PM (#23839357)
Has there been any 3rd party audit that shows your claims to be true?
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