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I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
We’re not a dictatorship?
I just don't understand how we can allow a Chinese social media app in the west, while any non-chinese social media apps aren't allowed there? Same with housing, why can Chinese nationals buy housing here, while I can't do so there?
Honestly, this type of discussion is seriously irritating, because it implies that TikTok is doing something unique that other apps aren't doing. Just as the article demonstrates, many western countries do the exact same thing that TikTok does, except TikTok seemingly takes it one step further (probably because of shoddy programming). Applying geographic-based arguments to technology is just a bandaid. The problem ne…
We all shit our pants because Russia used Meta, and American company, to influence the 2020 election. Imagine the same amount of data, a more accurate algorithm, and entirely within the control of foreign actors.
It doesn't matter if it is China or Colombia or Japan, a foreign company have that much influence over the opinions citizens of a country is dangerous.
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>> Does just not entering any keyboard input in the in app browser mitigate this? yes but i doubt the hundreds of millions of users, many of which are children, know this
To play devil's advocate... the most common way to end up in the in-app browser is to click an ad. Non-technical people don't have a concept of "in app browser sandboxing". In their minds they clicked on an ad, they're still inside TikTok, TikTok's UI is showing, TikTok will show prompts based on the content shown... they probably assume TikTok has access to that page? Honestly I'm more annoyed that Apple allows big…
Because I doubt it is. People click links in chats and in their feeds way more than they click ads
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Tell that to Facebook and LinkedIn. I don't get the double standard. These practices should be illegal, full stop. Why is it ok for US companies to do the same kinds of things?
It is not a double standard. There are already legal and cultural limitations in the US that have much more respect for user consent, user privacy and intellectual property than in China. Any US company caught putting arbitrary keyloggers in products can and should be condemned. Companies still track large amounts of data and pull shady antics, but the big difference is there is a means of holding US companies to acc…
Have yet to see this in practice. What usually happens is a bunch of articles are written "condemning" their actions, they are fined some ridiculously small amount and then business continues as usual.
The most recent action that seems to have had a significant impact on how Facebook captures data is Apple's "Ask App Not to Track". This is not exactly a shining example of the how the US system protects users privacy as the action was taken by a company, not a regulator.
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Everything is legal until it is explicitly made illegal. And I can assure you no US politician can understand more than 3 words in that paragraph you wrote, let alone make laws to regulate it.
Eavesdropping on electronic conversations where both parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy is illegal in many jurisdictions already.
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They do a lot more than that. > TikTok iOS subscribes to every tap on any button, link, image or other component on websites rendered inside the TikTok app. > TikTok iOS uses a JavaScript function to get details about the element the user clicked on, like an image (document.elementFromPoint) And that's just a sample of the calls the author was able to find.
If I build an analytics company and build a product that my customers can use to "analyze" their users activity it'd almost be a total neglect on my end not to include common tracking mechanisms that are well documented like simple event hooks in js. I really don't get the rage against tiktok. What they do that is publicly known is not bad. Maybe there is something bad they're doing but these random HN top stories ar…
Tik tok are not a party to these communications, and they’re not a carrier or service provider. What they’re doing is wire tapping.
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The wisdom of reciprocity also is older than all governments today. See Golden rule and Silver rule.
There were governments when those rules were formulated. Unless you mean, "Older than all governments in existence today," which might be true.