Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

Post by vesche » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

a13n wrote: post #172

I feel like this TikTok backlash is so overblown. I don't think TikTok is spying on US consumers/business, and I don't think TikTok is sharing any US private data with CCP... I believe this because there's no evidence to the contrary, and out of principle you shouldn't assume malintent. In fact, TikTok explicitly left Hong Kong because if they didn't they would have to share private data with CCP to comply with new l…

Post by azinman2 » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

pishpash wrote: post #179

adventured wrote: post #92

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There's nothing complicated or unusual about it. It's not ironic either. China is increasingly an adversary to the US. That context is going to get a lot worse this decade. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company and ultimately must (and will) answer to China. Facebook, Google, et al. are of course American companies. For a nation, whether Facebook concerns you as much as TikTok depends largely on which side you're on (…

Unfortunately, the so-called "liberal side" is going for all the tools like censorship and banning, state interference in the corporate sector, and more that it berates the other side about, so there is no moral case here, just pure tribalism. Actually the "liberal side" invented all these tools but has had a vastly better propaganda machine and hides under the cover of due process and procedural justice that never s…

Post by scohesc » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

btgeekboy wrote: post #111

ardy42 wrote: post #23

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> I'm more surprised Amazon (or any company, really) employees using an employer-managed device would have TikTok on them to start with, to be honest. I am too. Many years ago at my employer, someone fat-fingered a command and wiped every single iPhone/iPad that an employee had configured to connect the company email system. Even after restoring a backup, the devices would just wipe themselves again unless the owner…

If you can't handle your phone being remotely wiped, you also can't handle it being lost, stolen, or broken. For me, it's a minor inconvenience at best, not a death sentence.

Post by mulmen » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

wilde wrote: post #6

ziddoap wrote: post #2

I'm more surprised Amazon (or any company, really) employees using an employer-managed device would have TikTok on them to start with, to be honest. As the follow-up tweet says: "Completely independent of the specifics in this instance: get a second device before installing an employer's config profile on your personal device"

Not everyone can afford 2 phones, but their employers expect them to be online all the time anyway. This is particularly true of people who work in US hospitals.

Post by kshacker » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #185

hdjrklt wrote: post #168

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Tell me a single good social app from Google. I'll wait. It's not like they didn't try, but all of them seem to suffer from the design by committee syndrome.

What was that social network that used to be bigger than Facebook in Brazil? Orkit I think? It was something like that. Edit: Oh, I forgot the one staring me in the face—Youtube! It's no less of a social network than TikTok.