With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.
The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.
Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”
My decision to stick with rednote after the first wave of bullshit has been vindicated.
You’re worried about privacy, and your answer is Rednote?
Some people just can’t be helped I guess
I am worried about privacy from the US government. I do not care what the chinese government knows about me because I am not Chinese.
The Chinese voluntarily supplied the TikTok data to the US Government. They also used the app to promote Donald Trump’s second term to start with.
The servers might be moving locations soon but its still accessed and maintained by chinese military in Beijing.
You should care. It is affecting you.
They moved the servers for US version of TikTok to the US, appointed a bunch of state department ghouls, and eventually sold it to a US company to comply with US regulations and avoid simply getting banned. Rednote is entirely chinese and has no such requirements.
Tf is the chinese military going to do with a my data? Ask me to stop sending unhinged furry memes to my chinese friends?
If you can’t figure out the myriad of ways the Chinese military can exploit the use of your data to your detriment, then you don’t really have any reason to be concerned if only because you can’t figure out why you should be concerned in the first place.
Eben Byers didn’t think he had any reason to be concerned, but that didn’t stop him from getting killed five years later.
You know the CCP runs secret police operations in sovereign countries around the world, where they try to apply Chinese laws to residents of other countries outside of China, right?
They focus mainly on the Chinese diaspora, because they think they own them, but it’s not unthinkable that they might target anyone else if it advances their interests.
What do they have secret jail in the secret police station? Or do they just go around writing unenforceable tickets?
There are a lot of ways to fuck up people’s lives and control them through a combination of manipulation, intimidation, and character assassination. Havana syndrome is also a real thing, and you don’t have to be in Cuba to experience it, but good luck getting a doctor or anybody to take you seriously if you say you’re having symptoms.
It doesn’t necessarily involve going to secret jail, but if your name winds up on a list of “people whose lives to make hell,” then you’d better get used to people thinking you’re psychotic whenever you mention people who are stalking/spying on you.
No, its not, Cuba does not have a secret death laser.
The Communist China State will use it for the Same reasons the US State and Corporations use the data of us
The servers have not been moved to the cloud, they are as of today still in Beijing, and when they do move to the cloud Beijing will maintain full access.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/17/tech/tiktok-user-data-oracle
From the article:
Also pretty lame that CNN refused to point out that the services are centralized in Beijing, instead saying “Virginia and Singapore” which is an obvious lie by omission
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
If privacy was your concern then join Loop. That one is Fediverse certified
Is rednote still a thing? What’s it like now?
Not too different than before, its less chaotic, the moderation situation improved, you don’t see cryptonazi shit while other users get randomly punished for completely innocuous content like when US users first flooded in.