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Re:Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks by snehk on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:37AM (#34970455)
That's fairly normal data collection and nothing out of the ordinary at all.
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Re:Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks by kube-system on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:38AM (#34970476)
It is. The new part for most westerners is the political jurisdiction that those legal requests are beholden to.
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Re:Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks by Spivak on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:56AM (#34970690)
Which I guess is "welcome to how everyone not in the US thinks about the US." So 100% it's a change for us but the rest of the world seems to have acclimated to it fine-ish.
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Re:Canada bans TikTok on government devices over security risks by kube-system on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:03AM (#34970779)
I don't disagree with that sentiment. Although it is more understandable that many outside of the US/CN/RU might use foreign social networks, because they don't have any major domestic alternatives... whereas the US has several direct competitors to TikTok.
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