Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by coliveira on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:25AM
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There is no point in showing facts, people here are operating under Trump's misinformation spell. They think china is in every corner trying to steal their data (of course Facebook has already done this first, but who cares).
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Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by kube-system on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:51PM
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You misunderstand the concern. The US government is concerned about national security interests, not personal privacy interests. You may also note [0] that Facebook (and Twitter, and YouTube) has been the subject of similar concerns by the US government.
[0]: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-targets-so...
> They think china is in every corner trying to steal their data
Because they factually are. But as some people misunderstand, they're not interested in your grandma's recipes or your mom's credit card number -- they're amassing data that is a gold mine for targeted military intelligence operations.
https://www.wired.com/story/china-equifax-anthem-marriott-op...