US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by abeppu on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:03AM (#42428356)

The "and not be allowed to host content on US servers" is kinda funny as a requirement in context. Prior to the law being passed IIUC TikTok had already put in a bunch of work to make sure American data was stored in the US, with a US cloud vendor, with access controls, which were to demonstrate that this data was not accessible to the Chinese. Serving in the US, with big US cloud partner was meant to be a way to create confidence. If TikTok ends up being a webapp for US users, with our data definitely not in the US ... isn't that worse?

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by OWMYT on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:00AM (#42429253)

I bet if it comes to that, a DNS pollution alone will drive down 80% of traffic.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by krisoft on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:19AM (#42430705)

> Serving in the US, with big US cloud partner was meant to be a way to create confidence.

Huawei tried a similar confidence building tactic by paying UK cyber spooks to scour their code to show they don't have backdoors. The so called Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre. Didn't work out for them either.

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