Re:Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks
by rvz on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:47AM
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> The bit that somewhat surprises me is the focus on TikTok, other apps are (AFAIK) capable of the exact same thing. Is the expectation that TikTok is the only app that the Chinese government have access to? this seems a bit unlikely.
I don't think it is just about 'profiling people based on app usage'. I have not seen any other social networking app that does this [0] and after suggesting that ByteDance having no access to US data outside of China, well there's this investigation. [1] [2]
> I've not seen any movement on banning those similarly.
That's because they (Facebook, Instagram, Snap, etc) have instead been fined by the regulators in the hundreds of millions. Don't want a ban? Pay a giant fine for such privacy violations like the rest of the social networking companies have done.
I don't think it is just about 'profiling people based on app usage'. I have not seen any other social networking app that does this [0] and after suggesting that ByteDance having no access to US data outside of China, well there's this investigation. [1] [2]
> I've not seen any movement on banning those similarly.
That's because they (Facebook, Instagram, Snap, etc) have instead been fined by the regulators in the hundreds of millions. Don't want a ban? Pay a giant fine for such privacy violations like the rest of the social networking companies have done.
[0] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tik...