Tik Tok is a national security threat

Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by bpodgursky on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:29PM (#32904277)

There's a point here at which you have to just rely on your priors, but there's just a world of difference between Google and FB sharing data the US government requests on individuals via court orders, vs the CCP hoovering up data on every single user and using them to build a single giant social credit database.

And yes, maybe everyone is lying to you, and the NSA is doing it already. Maybe they already have radios in your microwave building a database of your breakfasts. We just don't know.

But at the end of the day I know a lot of people at Google and 100% of them would push back on governments requests as hard as humanly possible, and there would absolutely be whistleblowers if this was happening. I'm just not going to equate the two.

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by cwkoss on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:43PM (#32904434)

You don't think the NSA/DHS has a giant social graph database of US citizens? I'd be shocked if they didn't.

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by bpodgursky on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:48PM (#32904523)

I don't, no.

I do think they are obeying the letter of the legal mandates and have a social graph of all non citizens who have ever been to the US, or interacted with anyone from the US. But not US citizens, no.

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by infamouscow on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:04PM (#32904737)

Are you familiar with the whistleblower Edward Snowden?

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