TikTok is taking the US government to court.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      If this were true, it wouldn’t matter that the US set up the social security number system, because Experian leaked millions of Americans’ SSNs.

      It obviously matters who owns a service that millions of citizens use from a country that is a political rival. You’re just hoping to shut down any conversation against TikTok with a whataboutism

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        We’re talking about individuals’ personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.

        The problem is that the data is accessable, but that’s not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.

        • tborders@lemmy.ca
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          When signing up for a tik-tok account, I put in a birth date, a username, an email address for verifcation and that was it. I didn’t need to provide a drivers license, verify that the name I put in was my actual name, that the birth date was my actual birth date. Location isn’t allowed nor was it requested and neither was Nearby devices. It’s actually been a much better behaved application than any American social media app.

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            7 months ago

            It’s a bad analogy. Mass surveillance (continuous collection of everyone’s data) has very little to do with the number we use to track social security payments.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              7 months ago

              The ownership part was how it was analogous. That was pretty obvious. Any time a massive system is set up for millions of people to use, it quite obviously matters who set it up and why.

              I just love when Internet randos pretend not to get analogies because I’m, gasp, comparing things which aren’t identical.

              In any case, sorry to interrupt your stream of 15 second video clips.

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      7 months ago

      So Americans having access to American’s Data is bad but you think China having access to American’s Data is good?

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          7 months ago

          Alright, thank you for clarifying that you want more restrictions and laws against these companies, it just seemed odd for you to bring up those other businesses in a post talking about the TikTok forced sale and resulting lawsuit.

          I’m just happy about them restricting US Citizen data being brokered to adversarial nations including Iran, Russia, China, and others.

          • DrDeadCrash@programming.dev
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            7 months ago

            I want the issue of mass surveillance / data collection to be addressed, instead of this bs which is basically working around the edges the problem. Tick-tock shouldn’t be allowed to sell (/provide) user data to anyone but neither should Meta, X, reddit, etc.

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              7 months ago

              So you’re simultaneously against the TikTok ban but also worried about the lack of privacy for American Citizens?