How about instead of the monthly “your data was breached and here’s your identify theft monitoring” reactive method, we simply pass an actual data law that’s worth a damn.
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Apple Removes TikTok From App Store on iPhones and iPads in the U.S.
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How about instead of the monthly “your data was breached and here’s your identify theft monitoring” reactive method, we simply pass an actual data law that’s worth a damn.
Not the same thing. We should outlaw the sale of our data without opt-in explicit consent across the board. There wouldn’t be a need to put the onus on everyone to beef up all their security if we spiked the market itself.
The world has slightly healed.
For a while until DT lets china back in.
For a while until DT lets china back in.
This is excellent news. Now can we block FaceBook and X next? In some ways these companies are even worse, but they feed your info directly to the US government, which is apparently fine.
I'm kind of over all social media at this point. I stopped using FaceBook in 2010 and Twitter in 2020. The only thing I use that is kind of close is YouTube—which I primarily use for educational content and news, Reddit—which I primarily use for educational content and news, and MacRumors—which I primarily use for educational content and news. Oh, and I suppose I use LinkedIn, but only barely—because sometimes you have to when you need a job.
I'm kind of over all social media at this point. I stopped using FaceBook in 2010 and Twitter in 2020. The only thing I use that is kind of close is YouTube—which I primarily use for educational content and news, Reddit—which I primarily use for educational content and news, and MacRumors—which I primarily use for educational content and news. Oh, and I suppose I use LinkedIn, but only barely—because sometimes you have to when you need a job.
facebook and google is banned in china right?
It’s ironic since 4547 supporters want it banned, but extreme leftists Trump haters want it to stay
TikTok could be spun off as an independent company, and ByteDance could still make a lot of money from charging a license fee for the software and branding. I know you're joking, but the fact that ByteDance has said that the Chinese government won't allow the sale of TikTok, says it all.
The problem isn't that people's data is being sold by TikTok, it's that it's being given to the the Chinese Government - who are using it for anything and everything from selling it (independent of TikTok), to training AI, to engaging in political interference. Banning or forcing a sale are the only ways to resolve that issue.
Most companies don't sell data - that's what is valuable. The use the data to sell 'access' to users through their own ad platforms (facebook, X, google etc.). Most data hacks aren't from social media companies. They're from telcos and banks and other non-tech companies you deal with ona day-to-day basis.
It’s coming back. Dictator Trump can’t respect and uphold the court’s decision to ban it. They already have a message working with Trump admin to bring it back. My guess, the cesspool will be back on Monday or shortly after.
How does it "say it all" exactly? You think the US government would stay silent if a foreign government tried to manipulate a US company into selling a product of theirs to a foreign competitor? This is not a free market move in the first place, why would any government treat it as such?
They'll just move to the next thing, there's plenty of US alternatives whose right to fry the brains of kids will forever be protected as long as it adds to the US GDP. Don't mistake this for a move that was made for the right reasons. This is purely a US power play to show the world that they are ready to sink every virtue they supposedly protect in order to protect their profits and influence.
Although it is being banned not for doing that, but for the RISK of doing that, which is a much more vague reason.
Curious how people here complain non-stop about government overreach and censorship in the EU. But are now happy the most popular app in the US gets banned.
Also: the big winner in this story will be Trump when he gets the app back. It’s just mind blowing how lucky this guy is.
Also: the big winner in this story will be Trump when he gets the app back. It’s just mind blowing how lucky this guy is.
That's not quite the same. It's like complaining of government overreach because they removed asbestos from old buildings or lead from paint.
Id argue if the government, current or impending had any balls they would have gone after every social media app, Billionaires be damned. But they won't because they won't bite the hand that feeds them.
The reasons are not the same reasons, other than that, yes - it’s exactly the same. It’s controlling what and how a foreign company operates in the US. The difference is that the EU don’t demand ownership, rather compliance.
It’s also the same as Google et al being already banned in China. The difference there of course, is that that’s expected from a country such as China, but the US is ‘the free world*’.
*with the government’s approval
Instead of giving all of their data to this company, everyone will just give it to all the other companies harvesting data. But I guess since the other companies are U.S. based that's ok.
Wow this was banned faster than you say assault rifles
It is, we support American internet surveillance over here!! Get that Chinese crap outta here.
You're almost there partner. I'd recommend not using the Internet entirely.
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As somebody who doesn’t use TikTok I find this news a slightly amusing blip amongst a barrage of a very depressing landscape (thinking of Monday). The world is going mad and I want time out.
It's being banned because the Chinese Government is using Tiktok to harvest data on Americans - which may involve selling it, but also training AI or engaging in political/cultural interference. It's about a foreign government, not a foreign company, using the information.
ByteDance could easily sell or spin off TikTok into a separate company and charge that company a license fee, except they've said that the Chinese Government won't allow it. So it's not about money - and therefore not about 'selling' data, it's about the data itself.
In times like these it's important to focus on yourself and your own health. You can't fix stupid.
Literally every free app is selling your data one way or another and also, it can only "sell", what you expose to the app in the first place. It's also understandable that they don't want to just hand over their algorithm