FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
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FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
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Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#2However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#3However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
Sorry for stating the obvious, but for US authorities having the world’s data in the hands of an American company is a strategic asset, having it in the hands of a Chinese company is a strategic liability.
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#4Stupid article and headline. Not the FCC, an FCC Commissioner.
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#5However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
Sorry for stating the obvious, but for US authorities having the world’s data in the hands of an American company is a strategic asset, having it in the hands of a Chinese company is a strategic liability.
Indeed. It’s surprising this isn’t coming from the CIA or the NSA. But then maybe it is.
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#6Stupid article and headline. Not the FCC, an FCC Commissioner.
Yep, and a member of the out of power party as well
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#7However putting this data in the hands of FAANG is no problem at all, and totally can't end up in any nefarious hands.
“We must not do anything about recent thing that is very bad and unpredictable because of this other thing which is also quite bad but we’ve been learning to manage it for 15 years”
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#8Security a part the occidental world need to protect his market from unfair competition. If Facebook is blocked on china why we have to make TikTok prosper?
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#9Ya know what they say... "Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first."
Re: FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
#10I don't have a horse in this race at all, but the annoying part is that the same rules don't get applied across the board. Everything they're accusing TikTok of - from data harvesting to the government having access to said data - is true for western companies as well and that should be the problem. Not the fact that the data is now in the hands of the Chinese but that the data is being collected at all provided to the government.
The problem should be that the data is collected and provided to the government whenever they want - not that it's not the Chinese government. We had this discussion after the Snowden leaks and nothing changed whatsoever. Back then it was the US government and the US gov had the chance to change the rules so this could not happen. Now they're up in arms because other governments do the exact same thing. It's really annoying.
Ban every app that collects "problematic" user info. Make the collection itself illegal, give users control about their data but don't argue that the practice suddenly becomes problematic when others do it.