https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/11/tiktok-executive-admits-australian-users-data-accessed-by-employees-in-china
Head of data security Will Farrell tells parliamentary committee Australian data accessible ‘on a very strict basis’
China gets every metric possible from every single device in the world that uses tik tok. If you don't think so... Pull your head out of your ass.
People don't even have to be using TikTok itself, I play Marvel Snap! and it tries to connect to TikTok & Bytedance servers. Anything owned by Bytedance, they will get your info.
Essentially any and all phones send info to someone. It's remarkable when people talk about how secure their iPhone is. Zero clue that they still have no privacy.
If a company is doing that though that seems like it could be quite a major issue though
As clever as you think you're being, it is an important difference.
Mostly because in the US you can choose not to use it, in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.
Slight difference in potential consequences for benign behavior.
I don't know if the US is that far ahead here - we have the regular credit score which is used for all sorts of stuff it really ought't be. And it's proprietary, so honestly who knows what goes into it. We just get hidden companies rather than the government - and often the government hides behind the companies so they don't have to do pesky things like get a warrant. I'm not sure which is better.
I agree it's 6 versus a half dozen
But the layer of obscurity at least gives the illusion they aren't supposed to abuse it so much, which helps massively during breaches or trying to get your data or have it deleted.
I doubt any of that is even possible in china (i have no citation for this)
in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.
Do you have any source that says that using TikTok is mandatory in China, or that not using it does what you're asserting?
The social credit score is mandatory, and what you watch on it is absolutely used to adjust your credit score.
So no, i don't have a direct source that says "you must use this app or your credit score goes down", i have a reasonable informed idea that it probably does, based on china's current treatment of it's citizens.
Why, do you happen to a single or any even tangentially related source pretending it doesn't?
I’m pretty sure they’ve said this multiple times throughout the years and then everytime theres a story it did happen
Almost as if... because there weren't consequences the first time they blatantly lied to people's faces... they just continued to do so, repeatedly.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
