FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores

Post by AlexandrB » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

cloutchaser wrote: post #219

snehk wrote: post #10

I 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 t…

Underlying your point there is an assumption that Chinese government = American government in it's misuse of data etc. I don't think this is true. And I've run a privacy advocate organisation and I'm a complete Snowden fanboy. But if I had to choose between giving my data to the CCP or the American government, the choice is easy. Even though a lot of data collection was done without warrants in the USA, there's been…

Post by RyanGoosling » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

geysersam wrote: post #566

vanderZwan wrote: post #546

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> Which means that all countries other than the US also should be banning Facebook In case you hadn't heard (I presume you have, us being on HN and all), there is some movement within the EU towards that end

Blatantly false. Completely unrealistic. Additional regulation towards privacy perhaps - affecting all similar (American, Chinese, European etc.) platforms. But not an outright ban. Facebook threatening to close their site in Europe because of regulations is not the same as EU banning them.

Post by RobbieGM » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 2:45 PM UTC

drvdevd wrote: post #470

One interesting aspect of this case is that, should Apple and Google follow through and force TikTok off their App Stores - many people will feel quite "disenfranchised" due to the popularity of the App. This would force many who would otherwise never think about the consequences of these walled garden ecosystems and their lack of control, to suddenly have to do so.

Post by gloryjulio » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 2:48 PM UTC

lakomen wrote: post #532

gloryjulio wrote: post #523

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Because it's US vs China and companies like Meta/Google/Twitter are already treated poorly in China? Ppl are already asking these kind of questions even long before this, why should we allow companies such as Tiktok while so many 'Western' tech companies are banned in China?

Are they? Which companies are those?

Post by snovv_crash » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

coliveira wrote: post #538

ethbr0 wrote: post #507

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Could you give some examples? The US has certainly abused its power (notoriously, in the 60s and 70s at the height of the Cold War), but "constant" appears to be stretching historical fact to fit a narrative.

Are you forgetting that the US has been actively involved in non-stop wars around the world for the last 20 years? And before these wars started, it was doing "special operations" in eastern Europe, parts of Asia and Africa? And in Latin America it never really stoped its coups, military dictatorships and the such, especially in central America. And then of course there was the "cold" war and all the crimes in South…