TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)

Post by moistly » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 3:02 AM UTC

cwkoss wrote: post #260

cybervaz wrote: post #130

I will repeat my comment: Stop generalizing the "country of origin" as if it does not matter like the Chinese Comunist Party isn't a threat to the world. - There will always be a ruler, and which ruler is killing, slaving, censoring and selling it's own people as meat tools for foreign companies? - China will kill, torture it's own people and their families if they think they are a thread (even if remote) to their go…

US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged. US has heavy surveillance infrastructure, and a kafkaesque 'private' credit system that I have no doubt the TLAs can manipulate with their banking partners. US politicians are currently working to ban the histories of racism and genocide from public schools when they make t…

Post by throwawayjun21 » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 3:39 AM UTC

noisy_boy wrote: post #199

throwaway_night wrote: post #56

India is the only country banned tiktok. Huge respect for the country

At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in Ladakh border area[0]. Banning Chinese apps isn't exactly a severe response. [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53061476

Post by WiSaGaN » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 5:02 AM UTC

wbsss4412 wrote: post #296

cybervaz wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop generalizing the "country of origin" as if it does not matter like the Chinese Comunist Party isn't a threat to the world. - There will always be a ruler, and which ruler is killing, slaving, censoring and selling it's own people as meat tools for foreign companies? - China will kill, torture it's own people and their families if they think they are a thread (even if remote) to their government party (CCP). - Ch…

The social credit system has been acknowledged by multiple western media outlets to have been greatly exaggerated and misreported. [0] To be sure, there are numerous areas in which the behavior of the Chinese government is concerning and unacceptable, but there is also an undeniable level of hysteria when it comes to China that is not applied to US Allies. (See: Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf states) [0] https…

Post by CyanBird » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

throwaway29812 wrote: post #90

rglullis wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's different only in paper. The US also can put lot of pressure on the companies via TLAs.

Has the US Gov utilized data from private companies to aid in the targeting and internment of their own citizens ? https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/09/china-big-data-program-t...

Post by CyanBird » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 6:14 AM UTC

throwaway29812 wrote: post #142

CyanBird wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... > Yet something odd happened when Borden and Prater were booked into jail: A computer program spat out a score predicting the likelihood of each committing a future crime. Borden — who is black — was rated a high risk. Prater — who is white — was rated a low risk. > Two years later, we know the computer algorithm got it exactly backward. Borden has not been charged with any new crimes. Prater is serving an eigh…

You can find individual cases of data misuse all day long. Comparing those awful but isolated cases to a large, purposeful, systemic, government run system of internment is absurd. https://thediplomat.com/2022/05/xinjiang-police-files-show-x...