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Re:Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok by throwaway4good on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:20PM (#33972107)
TikTok already stores its data in the US and gives the US authorities full access to it.
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Re:Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:44PM (#33972593)
> TikTok already stores its data in the US and gives the US authorities full access to it

A courtesy also extended to Beijing [1].

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

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Re:Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok by three_seagrass on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:23PM (#33973374)
Did you read the article? ByteDance's headquarters is in Beijing and these leaked audio tapes are talking about engineers in the headquarters logging into U.S. servers.

This isn't some smoking gun about CCP surveillance, but more about how the sausage is made for a global app.

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Re:Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok by boston_clone on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:26PM (#33972244)
i think the bigger issue is things like this:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

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