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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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