The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
A draft agreement with a federal agency to avoid a ban would have given US agencies unprecedented access to TikTok's facilities and servers.
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"Let us see the data and analysis products you're gathering on our citizens to send home to the CCP"
"How dare you ask us for such an invasion of their privacy!"
They forcefully got tons of data from google, microsoft etc on US citizens. Why would they be doing it for “good” now? Just because “CCP bad”?
Instead Apple and hardware manufacturers in general should prevent their products from allowing any software company from invading the people’s privacy in such intense ways.
This article and the one it links to from Forbes describe arrangements to access the data that is being collected through the app but I believe the Gizmodo headline is misrepresenting that as a request for additional invasive features. My comment is meant to point out how I perceive the drafted agreement and the pearl-clutching response from that headline.
I don't think they want that information purely in the service of Truth, Justice and the American Way™ but concerns about what the CCP has access to through their app are legitimate. Privacy invasion is unacceptable no matter who is doing it. There are cases where it is necessary but even then, it should be limited and subject to intense scrutiny to protect the rights of individuals. The Patriot act and things like it are an absolute disaster on that front, for example, but that's no excuse for feeding our information directly to a hostile foreign power.
I'd love to see hardware and software producers (as well as legislators) putting user privacy higher on their list of priorities. It's a huge problem that we're still coming to grips with and the people making the rules are generally woefully ignorant of the technology in use.
Thank you,
People who read headlines are being robbed here. I agree following the Forbes article was WAY more helpful and nothing backed up Gizmodo's claim.
Instead Apple and hardware manufacturers in general should prevent their products from allowing any software company from invading the people’s privacy in such intense ways.
lol, every intel processor has a backdoor called the intel management engine, it's literally a second processor running minix.
Right? And who do you think asked them to put it in there?
