Current Events > TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users

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eggcorn
12/25/22 3:15:49 AM
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https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-spying-internal-report-us-users

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1337toothbrush
12/25/22 3:16:54 AM
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Oh shit, an app tracking users?!?!??!

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nexigrams
12/25/22 3:51:15 AM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Oh shit, an app tracking users?!?!??!

There's clearly a difference between a company harvesting data to make money, and a hostile government harvesting data because it wants a big smoking crater to exist where America once existed.

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Back_Stabbath
12/25/22 3:54:33 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/5/AAQ2WmAADMd3.jpg

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YugiNoob
12/25/22 3:54:52 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/4/AAPV5JAAEBmy.jpg

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frozenstar
12/25/22 3:57:00 AM
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People shouldn't be using TikTok, but maybe it's too late now.

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Jennywentnorth8
12/25/22 3:59:53 AM
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I wonder what like the bare minimum bad news would actually be enough to get people to stop using tiktok and actually kill it. Somewhere between "it causes ass cancer" and this.
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Flaming_Fire619
12/25/22 4:40:10 AM
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Jennywentnorth8 posted...
I wonder what like the bare minimum bad news would actually be enough to get people to stop using tiktok and actually kill it. Somewhere between "it causes ass cancer" and this.

Most people aren't going to care. Every major social media site does the same about retrieving and/or selling user data. Its how you get tailored ads. The only reason this would be different is people being pissed that it's a foreign nation doing it

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1337toothbrush
12/25/22 5:15:33 AM
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nexigrams posted...
There's clearly a difference between a company harvesting data to make money, and a hostile government harvesting data because it wants a big smoking crater to exist where America once existed.
How is China going to harm me any more by having my data than a company within the US having my data? If anything, the US government (which all big companies are in bed with) has much easier access to me and thus has a better chance of harming me.

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eggcorn
12/25/22 5:20:27 AM
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1337toothbrush posted...
How is China going to harm me any more by having my data than a company within the US having my data? If anything, the US government (which all big companies are in bed with) has much easier access to me and thus has a better chance of harming me.
You don't think it was weird that the victims were journalists?

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iPhone_7
12/25/22 5:23:39 AM
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Theres some funny stuff on Tik Tok tho

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Ratchetrockon
12/25/22 5:35:54 AM
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China knows who I am

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Jiek_Fafn
12/25/22 7:05:56 AM
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I assumed that when domestic companies sell your data, China is one of the places buying it too. I feel like it's naive to think otherwise. I'm not getting ads for shein for nothing

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rexcrk
12/25/22 7:08:26 AM
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Agonized_rufous
12/25/22 7:09:01 AM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
I assumed that when domestic companies sell your data, China is one of the places buying it too. I feel like it's naive to think otherwise. I'm not getting ads for shein for nothing

Shoot, Tiktok is Chinese owned isnt it? IIRC China forces companies to have a government influence in any business they want

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Dakimakura
12/25/22 7:18:02 AM
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Do u think China is spying on what we type on our phones on here?

they probably like, Wow, Americans really like breeding and milk.

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SpoiltTrouser
12/25/22 7:31:02 AM
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based tiktok

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NeonTentacles
12/25/22 7:32:21 AM
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I'm glad I never downloaded that crap

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R_Jackal
12/25/22 8:49:57 AM
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TikTok is garbage anyway, but I understand a lot of people like it. Despite it basically doing what everything else does these days on the Internet, this will likely give a little more fuel to those "ban TikTok" things going on.
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__starsnostars
12/25/22 9:05:03 AM
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eggcorn posted...
You don't think it was weird that the victims were journalists?

I mean the article states that ips were collected while trying to discover who was leaking information to the press. You can bet just about every company and government does that...

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Hornezz
12/25/22 9:08:58 AM
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Since the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal didn't sink facebook it's safe to say most people are either completely oblivious about this sort of thing, or just don't care at all about their digital privacy.

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uwnim
12/25/22 9:11:10 AM
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Dakimakura posted...
Do u think China is spying on what we type on our phones on here?

they probably like, Wow, Americans really like breeding and milk.
They can literally just use a bot account for that. No need for spyware.

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ZevLoveDOOM
12/25/22 9:12:32 AM
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you dont say...
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bo_danvers
12/25/22 9:19:39 AM
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Old news is so exciting!!one1!!!
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Cuticrusader09
12/25/22 9:26:15 AM
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R_Jackal posted...
TikTok is garbage anyway, but I understand a lot of people like it. Despite it basically doing what everything else does these days on the Internet, this will likely give a little more fuel to those "ban TikTok" things going on.

I worry because dumb kids are easily influenced by that crap and do shit that is dangerous and can harm them.

My kid has a phone buy she cant download tiktok or any social apps. Ive told her she can only text friends from school.
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whitelytning
12/25/22 9:29:25 AM
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For the longest time I thought TikTok was just an app for old guys to watch teens dance. Why have this on your phone?

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wackyteen
12/25/22 9:38:31 AM
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Cuticrusader09 posted...
I worry because dumb kids are easily influenced by that crap and do shit that is dangerous and can harm them.

My kid has a phone buy she cant download tiktok or any social apps. Ive told her she can only text friends from school.

I was talking to a coworker the other day and he thinks that part of the reason why China has pushed to make TikTok, and apps like it, so big in the US is so they can undermine the growth of America's youth while restricting Chinese access to social media and trying to force Chinese youth into being successful and influential business leaders.

In essence, it's another army in an ongoing culture war.

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Agonized_rufous
12/25/22 10:11:44 AM
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China's TikTok pushes science and learning and only like an hour a day at most or something

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Zikten
12/25/22 10:13:56 AM
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I do not use Tik Tok but isn't a large portion of the US user base, kids? I don't like the idea of a foreign government, especially one like China, spying on American kids
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Shotgunnova
12/25/22 10:30:21 AM
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Alucard188
12/25/22 10:33:38 AM
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Yeah, it seems using social media to spy on foreign based journalists is a bad fucking idea.

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Master_Bass
12/25/22 10:36:41 AM
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I don't use TikTok but China already has all my data thanks to the government getting hacked years ago.

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