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Re:TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorit... by ravenstine on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:47PM (#23989573)
It remains to be seen what "data flows" actually means. That term is used again in the article but it doesn't sound like it explicitly refers to how TikTok acts like a surveillence tool. Maybe it will, but this is political theater. If they were run by people who actually cared, they wouldn't have gotten to this point in the first place.

> TikTok will launch a Transparency and Accountability Center in Los Angeles for moderation and data practices that will house all of its data flows and code moving forward.

Sounds pretty ambiguous. Like I said, remains to be seen.

These aren't friendly people. Their app not only harvests an assload of your data but has also been shown to be full of vulnerabilities. I'm not just going to take their word for it that making everything "open" is going to show that they've made things right.

If I ran TikTok, I'd pull off a stunt like this to fool technically illiterate politicians to get them off my back.

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Re:TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorit... by badRNG on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:52PM (#23989622)
It's quite possible TikTok will go down the path of promising the moon regarding self-regulation and accountability just until the immediate threat from regulators subsides. This appears to be a trend among companies to stave off regulation while in the public consciousness, then remaining largely unaccountable to these toothless accountability committees when the news cycle inevitably moves on.
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