• @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    People rightfully call out TikTok as a spyware because of their ties with CCP, but how exactly are other social media giants and big tech any different as they too have ties with the CIA, FBI etc

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Basically, most social media reads out everything that is openly accessible, like cookies, address books and contacts, etc.
      TikTok goes deeper, it has been watched going into protected files, trying to break encryptions (sometimes being successful).

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        -61 year ago

        Damn, didn’t know about this, but, what if Big Tech has also been doing this, but with more perfection, without getting caught?

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          01 year ago

          TikTok is big tech.

          But your question is highly speculative and kind of comes across as bad faith.

          • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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            -11 year ago

            how is it speculative that big tech steals your data. Google, Amazon, microsoft, every single big internet conglomerate sell your data. Its a fact, and is widely reported.

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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      -11 year ago

      Don’t we have a different tiktok than the Chinese one? There are specifically US folks in charge of the non China Tiktok. Wasn’t one of the security heads a former US state security agent?